German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–49

Author: Mark Walker  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 1992

E-ISBN: 9781139240253

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521438049

Subject: K5 European History

Keyword: 欧洲史

Language: ENG

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German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–49

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This a paperback edition of Professor Walker's full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of 'the bomb'.

Chapter

Moderators, isotope separation, and uranium machines

Nuclear power and lightning war

2 The war slows down

The end of the lightning war

Nuclear power conferences

National Socialism and German physics

The high tide of "deutsche Physik"

War and the decline of' deutsche Physik'

Power over ideology

Progress and infighting

3 The war comes home

Wonder weapons

Uranium machines in Berlin-Gottow

Greater Germany and cultural imperialism

Death from above and betrayal from within

4 The war is lost

Evacuation and self-preservation

The heavy water dries up

Harteck's circle, centrifuges, and special experiments

Uranium machines and rock cellars

5 The German achievement in the American shadow

The Alsos Mission

Farm Hall

The Smyth Report

6 The legacy of German National Socialism

The occupation of Germany

The American Zone

The Russian Zone

The French Zone

Nazification and denazification

The Goudsmit/Heisenberg controversy

7 The myth of the German atomic bomb

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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