Table of Contents: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project :

Main Author:	Rose, Paul Lawrence.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.
Subjects:	Heisenberg, Werner, > 1901-1976 > Views on atomic bomb. Heisenberg, Werner, > 1901-1976. Heisenberg, Werner, > 1901-1976 Physicists > Political activity. Atomic bomb > History. > Germany TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science. HISTORY > Military > Other. Atomic bomb. Kernwapens. Natuurkundigen. Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945. Germany. Duitsland.

Table of Contents:

Preface: why Heisenberg?
A note on historical terminology of the first nuclear age, 1939-45
Prologue: the Heisenberg problem: deception and self-deception
pt. I. History: the Heisenberg version and its critics. The Heisenberg version and its first critic, 1945-49
Elaborating the Heisenberg version, 1945-76
Criticizing the version, 1948-94
pt. II. Science: conceptions and misconceptions of physics. The atomic bomb problem, 1939
The Frisch-Peierls solution, 1940
Heisenberg's false foundations, 1939
The bomb as reactor: the u[subscript 235] bomb misconceived, 1940
The reactor as bomb: explosive reactor-bombs, 1940
The reactor and the bomb: plutonium, 1940-41
The reactor-bomb patent and the Heisenberg/Bohr drawing, 1941
The Weapons Research Office report of 1942: plutonium and the reactor-bomb
The two conferences of 1942: loose details, non-decisions, and pineapples
Reactor-bombs, plutonium bombs, and the SS: the report of activities of 1944
The truth: Farm Hall, August 1945
pt. III. Culture: German patriotism, German morality, and the truth of physics
The German context: unpolitical politics
The unpolitical Heisenberg: patriot and physicist, 1918-33
Collusion and compromise under Hitler, 1933-37
The Himmler connection: Heisenberg's "honor," 1937-44
Justifying Nazi victory, 1941-45
Decency and indecency at Farm Hall, 1945
Heisenberg's peculiar way, 1945-48.