Heisenberg, Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb
DOI: 10.1063/1.881237
The question of whether German scientists would have been willing to make atomic bombs for Adolf Hitler has excited persistent interest. Just why this is so is a topic I have explored elsewhere. Here, I contend that the roots of the controversy about the role of the German scientists are to be found mainly in the period immediately after the war, not in the war itself.
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Mark Walker. Union College, Schenectady, New York.
