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In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. Operation Epsilon sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in this quiet setting Farm Hall, near Cambridge that the interned physicists first heard of the attack on Hiroshima. Aside from changing the course of history, that night was also one of great shock and personal defeat for the physicists they were under the assumption that they alone had discovered nuclear fission. This is the story of Nazi Germanys hunt for a nuclear bomb. It is a tale of the genius and guilt of lauded, respected scientists.

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First published as Die Nacht der Physiker. Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizscker und die deutsche Bombe by Berenberg Verlag, 2012

Copyright Berenberg Verlag, 2012

First published in English in 2014 by

Haus Publishing Ltd

70 Cadogan Place

London, SW1X 9AH

www.hauspublishing.com

This second edition published in 2015

English translation copyright Simon Pare, 2014

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-908323-56-9

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-908323-86-6

All rights reserved.


Notes

Konrad Lindner, Carl Friedrich von Weizsckers Wanderungen im Atomzeitalter. Ein dialogisches Selbstportrt(Paderborn, 2002), 186.

Ibid. 20.

The , or what Weizscker calls the uncertainty principle, is a statement in quantum physics meaning that there is a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle for instance, position xand momentum ycan be known simultaneously. Heisenberg formulated this statement in 1927 as an element of quantum mechanics.


Konrad Lindner, Carl Friedrich von Weizsckers Wanderungen im Atomzeitalter, 21f.

Ibid. 112.

Elisabeth Heisenberg, Inner Exile: Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg, trans. p. Cappellari & C. Morris (Boston, 1984), 117.

Ibid. 130.

Cf. David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb: The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany(New York, 1967), 106.

entries from 15 April to 3 May 1945 have been published in Werner Heisenberg, Elisabeth Heisenberg, Meine liebe Li Der Briefwechsel 19371946, ed. Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg (Salzburg, 2011). Elisabeth Heisenberg commissioned an English translation that was posted on the Internet in 2004.

Elisabeth Heisenberg, Inner Exile: Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg, 130.

Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations, trans. A.J. Pomerans (London, 1971), 191.

Werner Heisenberg, Elisabeth Heisenberg, Meine liebe Li297.

Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, 261.

Samuel Goudsmit, Alsos(New York, 1947), 122f.

Samuel Goudsmit, Alsos, 134.

The signed on 7 May at Allied headquarters in Rheims came into force on 8 May at 23:01. For reasons of protocol, the ceremony was repeated at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst on 8/9 May, although this time the surrender was signed by representatives of Wehrmacht supreme command and of the individual units.

Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Kenneth Jay, Von der Uranspaltung bis Calder Hall(Hamburg, 1957), 46.

Ibid. 21.

Michael Schaaf, Heisenberg, Hitler und die Bombe. Gesprche mit Zeitzeugen (Dlepholz, 2001), 91.

Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Kenneth Jay, Von der Uranspaltung bis Calder Hall, 46.

. Michael Schaaf, Hitler und die Bombe, 95.

Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Kenneth Jay,

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