Hitler's Uranium Club : the Secret Recordings at Farm Hall /
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, a...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2001.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction by David Cassidy
- Prologue
- Cast of Characters
- Brief Chronology
- Part I: Settling In
- Part II: The Bomb Drops
- Part III: Putting the Pieces Together
- Part IV: Looking to the Future
- Part V: Looking Toward Home
- Part VI: A Nobel for Otto Hahn
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Heisenberg's Lecture, 26 February 1942
- Appendix B: Von Laue's Letter to Paul Rosbaud, 1959
- Appendix C: BBC Report, 6 August 1945
- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of the Ten Detainees
- Selected Bibliography.