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Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall

By Jeremy Bernstein (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Copernicus
Year
2001
ISBN
978-0-387-95089-1, 978-1-4757-5412-4
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-5412-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3662680 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
384\392
Topic
Physics
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
History;AtomicMolecularOptical and Plasma Physics;History and Philosophic

Description

From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6, that the Allies had succeeded in their own efforts to create such a weapon. But what they did not know was that many of their meetings and private conversations were being monitored and recorded by British agents. This book contains the complete collection of transcripts that were made from these secret recordings, providing an unprecedented view of how the German scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, thought and spoke about their roles during the war.

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