"The transcripts provide a unique insight into the characters, relationships and thoughts of a remarkable group of individuals." Nature In 1992 the transcripts of the secretly recorded conversation among ten key German nuclear scientists, including Hahn and Heisenberg, were made public. These important documents not only reveal what the German scientists knew and didn't know about building the atomic bomb in 1945, they also tell us what it was like to be a scientist in Germany during the Second World War. In this insightful book, the author annotates the transcripts in detail and presents a well-documented case to back his conclusion that German scientists knew very little about nuclear weapon technology before the Allies' bombing of Hiroshima.
- ISBN10 1563962586
- ISBN13 9781563962585
- Publish Date 1 November 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Institute of Physics
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English