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Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb
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Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

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Winner of the Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award given by Peace Corps Worldwide.

After a devastating run of German victories, Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But far from the battlefields, Allied scientists are struggling.

Intelligence reports put them a distant second behind the Germans in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world’s first nuclear weapon.

For the Allies’ top scientists, the race is deeply personal. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Samuel Goudsmit have known Hitler’s chief atomic scientist, Werner Heisenberg, for years. A brilliant, world-renowned physicist and once a good friend, he’s anti-Nazi, but also a loyal German.

Fear that he’s put country first and is building a bomb haunts Oppenheimer and Fermi all through their months and years developing the Allied bomb. That same anxiety drives Goudsmit, now a top Allied intelligence officer, to risk his life as he attempts to track down Heisenberg and the site of Hitler’s suspected atom bomb program.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 29, 2019
ISBN9781721367467
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb
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Michael Joseloff

Michael Joseloff is a four-time Emmy Award winning news and documentary producer, living in New York City. He was a producer with The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (PBS) from 1983 to 1995. His documentaries have aired on PBS, including the acclaimed series FRONTLINE, The History Channel, Discovery, CNBC, A&E, and other major cable TV channels. Joseloff’s interest in the atom bomb dates back to 1993, when he produced a segment for The NewsHour on the “father of the bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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