Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-04
Format: Online - approximately 939 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: de Syon, Guillaume
Article Excerpt
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture. By Paul Lawrence Rose. Berkeley/Los Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1998. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xx, 352. $19.95 Paperback ISBN: 0-520-22926-6
Recently issued in paperback, Rose's book revives questions concerning the German atomic bomb project and seeks to draw conclusions about the project's leader, Werner Heisenberg, and German character in general. His scientific investigation is splendid, but the social and cultural conclusion is a bit disappointing, all the more so from someone so knowledgeable.
Simply put, the issue surrounding why Germany did not complete a nuclear weapon during World War II has elicited two main schools of thought: One argues, as does Rose, that the German scientific community was simply incompetent partly because the contributions of scientists expelled in 1933 were deemed "Jewish science." Those physicists, like Heisenberg, who...
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