Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project : a study in German culture

Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project a study in German culture

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Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose examines early thinking about the atomic bomb not only on the German side but also among Allied scientists. He finds that the early history of fission bomb physics had no shortage of false starts and fumbles in both...

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Autor principal: Rose, Paul Lawrence (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 1998.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32142535*spi
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  • Preface: why Heisenberg?
  • A note on historical terminology of the first nuclear age, 1939-45
  • Prologue: the Heisenberg problem: deception and self-deception
  • pt. I. History: the Heisenberg version and its critics. The Heisenberg version and its first critic, 1945-49
  • Elaborating the Heisenberg version, 1945-76
  • Criticizing the version, 1948-94
  • pt. II. Science: conceptions and misconceptions of physics. The atomic bomb problem, 1939
  • The Frisch-Peierls solution, 1940
  • Heisenberg's false foundations, 1939
  • The bomb as reactor: the u[subscript 235] bomb misconceived, 1940
  • The reactor as bomb: explosive reactor-bombs, 1940
  • The reactor and the bomb: plutonium, 1940-41
  • The reactor-bomb patent and the Heisenberg/Bohr drawing, 1941
  • The Weapons Research Office report of 1942: plutonium and the reactor-bomb
  • The two conferences of 1942: loose details, non-decisions, and pineapples
  • Reactor-bombs, plutonium bombs, and the SS: the report of activities of 1944
  • The truth: Farm Hall, August 1945
  • pt. III. Culture: German patriotism, German morality, and the truth of physics
  • The German context: unpolitical politics
  • The unpolitical Heisenberg: patriot and physicist, 1918-33
  • Collusion and compromise under Hitler, 1933-37
  • The Himmler connection: Heisenberg's "honor," 1937-44
  • Justifying Nazi victory, 1941-45
  • Decency and indecency at Farm Hall, 1945
  • Heisenberg's peculiar way, 1945-48.

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