Hitler’s Uranium Club

The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall

Jeremy Bernstein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2000 | 2nd ed. 2001
Copernicus Books (Verlag)
978-0-387-95089-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Prologue: The Uranium Club.- I: Settling in.- II: The Bomb Drops.- III: Putting the Pieces Together.- IV: Looking to the Future.- V: Looking toward Home.- VI: A Nobel for Otto Hahn.- Epilogue: Aftermaths.- Appendix A: Heisenberg’s Lecture, February 26, 1942.- Translation by William Sweet.- Original German Text.- Appendix B: Von Laue’s Letters to Paul Rosbaud, 1959.- Appendix C: BBC Report, August 6, 1945.- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Ten Detainees.- Selected Bibliography.

Einführung	D. Cassidy
Zusatzinfo	26 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 384 p. 26 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Schlagworte	Drittes Reich; Geistes-/Kultur-Geschichte • Kernforschung • Kernwaffen
ISBN-10	0-387-95089-3 / 0387950893
ISBN-13	978-0-387-95089-1 / 9780387950891
Zustand	Neuware