Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb
Written by Michael Joseloff
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
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.
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.
Related to Chasing Heisenberg
Related audiobooks
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meltdown: Nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fermi Paradox, The: The History and Legacy of the Famous Debate over the Existence of Aliens Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reaching for the Moon: Short History of the Space Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rocket Age: The Race to the Moon and What It Took to Get There Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitler's Secret Army: A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors in World War II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Is Einstein Still Right?: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Quest to Verify Einstein's Greatest Creation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Apollo 11: The Inside Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man on the Moon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
European History For You
Our Hideous Progeny: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The War on the West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ghost Map Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teutonic Knights: A Military History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Reformation: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Chasing Heisenberg
8 ratings1 review
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Very superficial and not sure it added anything new.
1 person found this helpful