German national socialism and the quest for nuclear power, 1939-1949
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German national socialism and the quest for nuclear power, 1939-1949
Cambridge University Press, 1993, c1989
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 268-283
Includes index
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Description
This a paperback edition of Professor Walker's full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of 'the bomb'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Lightning War: Nuclear fission
- The German nuclear power project
- Moderators, isotope separation, and uranium machines
- Nuclear power and lightning war
- Part II. The War Slows Down: The end of the lightning war
- Nuclear power conferences
- National Socialism and German physics
- Progress and infighting
- Part III. The War Comes Home: Wonder weapons
- Uranium machines in Berlin-gottow
- Greater Germany and cultural imperialism
- Death from above and betrayal from within
- Part IV. The War is Lost: Evacuation and self-preservation
- The heavy water dries up
- Harteck's circle, centrifuges, and special experiments
- Uranium machines and rock cellars
- Part V. The German Achievement in the American Shadow: The Alsos MIssion
- Farm Hall
- The Smyth Report
- Part VI. The Legacy of German National Socialism: The occupation of Germany
- Nazification and denazification
- The Goudsmit/Heisenberg controversy
- Part VII. The Myth of the German Atomic Bomb: Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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