One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb. Germany was the birthplace of modern physics; it possessed the raw ma

A close-up look at Nazi attempts to build an atomic bomb describes the German bomb program, the Allied response to it, and the roles of some of the twentieth ce

The story of the interplay between science and espionage, morality and military necessity, which marked the German bomb programme and the Allied response to it.

No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for N

An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.