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Heisenberg's war : the secret history of the German bomb by Powers, Thomas, 1940 Dec. 12- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 inte
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Powers, Thomas, 1940 Dec. 12-
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780306810114
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (105 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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