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Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 31, 2000
...an excellent source for understanding the ambitions of Heisenberg's team and the reason for its ultimate lack of success. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Upon hearing about the Hiroshima bomb, the German nuclear physicists were astounded, and voluble about figuring out how the weapon worked. Their reactions were secretly taped, and after 50 years, their conversations about nuclear physics and Nazi politics were released. This, their first book-form appearance, broadly consists of Bernstein's summary of prewar physics and the German nuclear research program (including a turning-point, 1942 Heisenberg lecture to Nazi officials), and at the core are 25 transcripts drafted by the monitors. The most dramatic are those of August 6 and 7, 1945, into which Bernstein (a qualified scientist) inserts his commentary on the accuracy of the Germans' remarks, as well as his indignation at the rationalization by some of them that they purposely failed in order to prevent a Hitler victory. Bernstein's obiter dicta make clear his disbelief in ethical compunctions, but readers can at last reach their own conclusion. Heavily technical in patches, yet this one-of-a-kind document earns large libraries' consideration with its human-interest aspects. Gilbert Taylor
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...an excellent source for understanding the ambitions of Heisenberg's team and the reason for its ultimate lack of success. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From Booklist
Upon hearing about the Hiroshima bomb, the German nuclear physicists were astounded, and voluble about figuring out how the weapon worked. Their reactions were secretly taped, and after 50 years, their conversations about nuclear physics and Nazi politics were released. This, their first book-form appearance, broadly consists of Bernstein's summary of prewar physics and the German nuclear research program (including a turning-point, 1942 Heisenberg lecture to Nazi officials), and at the core are 25 transcripts drafted by the monitors. The most dramatic are those of August 6 and 7, 1945, into which Bernstein (a qualified scientist) inserts his commentary on the accuracy of the Germans' remarks, as well as his indignation at the rationalization by some of them that they purposely failed in order to prevent a Hitler victory. Bernstein's obiter dicta make clear his disbelief in ethical compunctions, but readers can at last reach their own conclusion. Heavily technical in patches, yet this one-of-a-kind document earns large libraries' consideration with its human-interest aspects. Gilbert Taylor
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- Werner Heisenberg : A Bibliography of His Writings, Second, Expanded Edition by David C. Cassidy on page 214, and page 216
- Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century (Routledge World Reference) by John Krige on page 167
- Fallout by Jim Ottaviani in Back Matter
- Science in the Twentieth Century by John Krige on page 197
- Science Goes to War: The Search for the Ultimate Weapon--from Greek Fire to Star Wars by Ernest Volkman in Back Matter
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