A human uncertainty principle.(opinions of World War II German nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg)(Brief Article)

U.S. News & World Report | February 18, 2002| | Copyright

What was Heisenberg's game? In the autumn of 1941, with Nazi Germany at the peak of its power, physicist Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to his old mentor and friend, Niels Bohr, in occupied Copenhagen. It was much more than a social call. Heisenberg was the leader of Germany's atom bomb project; Bohr later escaped from Denmark and joined the Allies' Manhattan Project, which succeeded where Germany's "Uranium Club" did not. Against the tensest of backdrops, the two great physicists discussed the war and the still theoretical possibility of nuclear weapons. But Bohr broke off ...

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