The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb 190832385X, 9781908323859

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme. Inter

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The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb
190832385X, 9781908323859

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