Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | September 1, 1993| | Copyright

It is always tempting for a journalist - and it takes one to know one - to make a story interesting by making it up. Journalist-writer Thomas Powers has written a highly readable book about Werner Heisenberg, the so-called father of the Nazi bomb project; but it does not meet the standards set in some of his earlier work. Powers has unearthed some vivid and telling material about the Nazi project, but he argues from indefensible assumptions and subjects key evidence to perverse interpretation. The result is a fiction.

Although the Nazi leadership was apprised of the ...

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