The Night of the Physicists
Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizs?cker and the German Bomb
In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this remote setting - Farm Hall, near Cambridge - that the German physicists first heard of the bombing of Hiroshima. August 6 1945 was night that changed the course of history. The terrible weapon that the Americans unleashed on Japan caused unprecedented destruction and loss of life. That the Allies had such a wea…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Pare, Simon (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-908323-85-9
- EAN: 9781908323859
- Produktnummer: 16255901
- Verlag: HAUS PUBLISHING
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 230 S.
- Masse: H12.8 cm x B19.8 cm x D2.3 cm 308 g
- Gewicht: 308
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Richard von Schirach is the author The Shadow of My Father (2005) a memoir of growing up as the son of Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Nazi youth movement. A respected sinologist, von Schirach's translation of Pu Yi's autobiography was adapted for cinema as The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1987.
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