Heisenberg's war : the secret history of the German bomb

著者

• Powers, Thomas

書誌事項

Heisenberg's war : the secret history of the German bomb

Thomas Powers

Da Capo Press, 2000

• : pbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics it possessed the raw materials and the industrial base and it commanded key intellectual resources. What happened?In Heisenberg's War , Thomas Powers tells of the interplay between science and espionage, morality and military necessity, and paranoia and cool logic that marked the German bomb program and the Allied response to it. On the basis of dozens of interviews and years of intensive research, Powers concludes that Werner Heisenberg, who was the leading figure in the German atomic effort, consciously obstructed the development of the bomb and in a famous 1941 meeting in Copenhagen with his former mentor Neils Bohr in effect sought to dissuade the Allies from their pursuit of the bomb. Heisenberg's War is a "superbly researched and well-written book" ( Time ) whose extraordinary story engrosses- and haunts.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA63366033
• ISBN:
  • 0306810115
• LCCN: 00055577
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [Cambridge, MA]
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 607 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 23 cm.
• 分類:
  • LCC : QC16.H35
  • DC21 : 355.8/25119/0943
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976 -- Views on atomic bomb
  • LCSH : Physicists -- Political activity
  • LCSH : Atomic bomb -- Germany -- History
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology