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

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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.

Author(s): Jeremy Bernstein (auth.)
Edition: 2
Publisher: Copernicus
Year: 2001

Language: English
Commentary: Originally published by the American Institute of Physics, College Park, 19962nd ed.
Pages: 384
Tags: History;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Prologue: The Uranium Club....Pages 1-62
Settling In....Pages 63-111
The Bomb Drops....Pages 113-150
Putting the Pieces Together....Pages 151-207
Looking to the Future....Pages 209-244
Looking Toward Home....Pages 245-280
A Nobel for Otto Hahn....Pages 281-316
Epilogue: Aftermaths....Pages 317-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-384