The German Uranium Project
JUL 01, 2000
The Farm Hall tapes show that Werner Heisenberg did not know how to calculate the critical mass in 1945, indicating that he did not work on atomic bombs during the war.
DOI: 10.1063/1.1292473
During World War II, the German atomic scientists were trying to produce electric power by creating a chain reaction in uranium. Werner Heisenberg hoped that this achievement would impress the allies if the war was lost.
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Hans A. Bethe. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
© 2000. American Institute of Physics
