Volume 40, Number 8 · April 22, 1993
The Bomb That Never Was
By Rudolf Peierls
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
by Thomas Powers
Knopf, 608 pp., $27.50
During World War II the scientists and technicians in Britain and the US who were building an atom bomb feared that Nazi Germany might produce such a weapon first. Yet at the end of the war it became clear that there had been no such threat. Not only was no German bomb under construction, but no extensive effort was being made to develop one. Why was that so?
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