Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during WWII. But a scientific mistake he made effectively derailed ...

Heisenberg and his colleagues did not push as hard as they could have to make atomic bombs. ... Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb (Perseus, 1995), ...

(Hahn, Heisenberg, von Weizsäcker and most of the better-known scientists in the uranium project apparently were not informed about this weapon.) This device was designed to use fission reactions, but ...

Uli Edel to Helm ‘Heisenberg’ Film on Nazi Pursuit of Atomic Bomb. Uli Edel, the German filmmaker behind 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' and 'Last Exit to Brooklyn,' will adapt Richard von ...

But, says Heisenberg: “Public interest in the problems of atomic physics was negligibly small between the years 1933 and 1939.” [the Nazi prewar period]. Germany had no cyclotron, and only two ...