Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945: A Study in German Culture. Paul Lawrence Rose

Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945: A Study in German Culture



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Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Page: 391
ISBN: 0520210778, 9780520210776

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Rose (Jewish/European studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.) addresses several important and interrelated historiographical questions. He analyzes how Heisenberg and other prominent physicists dealt with the moral issues of working for the Nazis and how Nazi ideology intersected, and influenced, their work. Rose argues that Heisenberg misunderstood several key physical principles; consequently, Nazi scientists were directed away from the development of atomic weaponry. Interestingly, Rose uses this information as part of his analysis of Heisenberg's postwar "confessions," in which the scientist described himself not only as apolitical but claimed he never intended to build an atomic bomb. Rose concludes that Heisenberg was attempting to cloud his support of the Nazi state, much as Albert Speer did when he claimed to be an apolitical technocrat. A fascinating book, but not for beginners; recommended for specialized collections on the history of science and modern intellectual history.?Frederic Krome, Jacob Rader Marcus Ctr. of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Of the controversies surrounding the dawn of the atomic age, ranking near the top is the matter of Werner Heisenberg and his team's failure to put a bomb in Hitler's hands. Two principal explanations exist. One view, presented in Thomas Powers' Heisenberg's War (1993), is that Heisenberg hindered research, and, in any event, was not ordered to go all out for the bomb; Rose adopts the opposing contention that Heisenberg failed not because of moral compunctions but because he miscalculated the moderator required by a plutonium-producing reactor and the critical mass for a U235 bomb. That Rose spitefully condemns Powers' popular book as "entirely bogus" indicates the passion he brings to arraigning Heisenberg and his historical defense; and on bomb technology, the strictly technical side, Rose bests Powers. However, his attempted clinching of the argument by digressions into German patriotism and Heisenberg's mindset is too speculative to be convincing. Deeply researched scholarship for serious students. Gilbert Taylor



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