Heisenberg's War by Thomas Powers

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Bx_238 2000 Paperback 0306810115. Trade PB. 8vo. Da Capo Press. 2000. 608 pgs. Wrappers in excellent shape, with no wear present. Binding tight and solid. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. BX_238; 1.5 x 8.8 x 5.8 Inches; 644 pages.

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1993 Soft Cover 0306810115. 608 pages, 8 plates, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the cover, 'One of the last secrets of WWII 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. Heinsenberg's War is a 'superbly researched and well written book' (TIME) whose extraordinary

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