Description: Further DetailsTitle: Heisenberg's WarCondition: NewSubtitle: The Secret History Of The German BombISBN-10: 0306810115EAN: 9780306810114ISBN: 9780306810114Publisher: Da Capo Press IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/11/2000Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 35mmItem Weight: 896gAuthor: Thomas PowersGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Technology & Engineering, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Heisenberg's War
Title: Heisenberg's War
Subtitle: The Secret History Of The German Bomb
ISBN-10: 0306810115
EAN: 9780306810114
ISBN: 9780306810114
Release Date: 08/11/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Heisenberg's War : the Secret History of the German Bomb
Number of Pages: 640 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Books
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2000
Topic: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Military / World War II, Military / Weapons, Physics / Atomic & Molecular, Science & Technology
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 28.6 Oz
Author: Thomas Powers
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
