Hitler's uranium club : the secret recordings at Farm Hall / annotated by Jeremy Bernstein ; with an introduction by David Cassidy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--Germany--History.

Atomic bomb.

Scientists.

Nuclear weapons.

History.

Germany.

Nuclear weapons--Germany--History.

Scientists--Germany--Correspondence.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxx, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Copernicus, [2001]

Summary:

From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge, England. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned that the Allies had succeeded. But what they did not know was that many of their meetings as well as private conversations were being monitored and recorded by British agents. This book contains the complete collection of transcripts that were made from the secret 1945 recordings. The Farm Hall transcripts, along with Bernstein's commentaries and a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction by historian David Cassidy, are an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the history of physics and World War II.

Contents:

Prologue : The uranium club

Part I : Settling in

Part II : The bomb drops

Part III : Putting the pieces together

Part IV : Looking into the future

Part V : Looking toward home

Part VI : A Nobel for Otto Hahn

Epilogue : Aftermaths.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index.

ISBN:

0387950893

OCLC:

44777222