[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] New Book: A Short History of Nuclear Folly

[Maury Siskel]

Recollection is that Heisenberg and others in German atomic program did 
deliberately slow their research efforts in order to retard Nazi 
progress toward an atomic bomb.  I don't think they had the capability, 
but they were working on it -- as were the Japanese (and us).
Best,
Maury&Dog
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On 5/25/2013 3:43 AM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> I really doubt that Nazi scientists knew how to and had the capability to
> make an atomic weapon but "chose" not to.  I wonder what other fiction that
> Herzog might have buried in this book.  Has anyone had the opportunity to
> read it?
>
> Roger Helbig
>
> (see last line of the following news release)
>
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> Date: Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:53 AM
> Subject: [New post] New Book: A Short History of Nuclear Folly
>     Christina MacPherson posted: "A Short History of Nuclear
> Folly [Hardcover]
> http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nuclear-Folly/dp/1612191738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369261455&sr=8-1&keywords=short+history+of+nuclear+folly
>   Release
> date: April 30, 2013 In the spirit of Dr."
>        New post on *nuclear-news*
> <http://nuclear-news.net/author/christinamacpherson/>   New Book: A Short
> History of Nuclear
> Folly<http://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/25/new-book-a-short-history-of-nuclear-folly/>
> by
> Christina MacPherson<http://nuclear-news.net/author/christinamacpherson/>
>
> *<http://antinuclearinfo.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/book-nuclear-folly.gif>A
> Short History of Nuclear Folly [Hardcover]
> http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nuclear-Folly/dp/1612191738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369261455&sr=8-1&keywords=short+history+of+nuclear+folly
>    *Release date: April 30, 2013
> *In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic
> people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up
> and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with
> catastrophe* Rudolph
> Herzog, the acclaimed author of *Dead Funny*, presents a devastating
> account of history's most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From
> the rarely-discussed nightmare of "Broken Arrows" (40 nuclear weapons lost
> during the Cold War) to "Operation Plowshare" (a proposal to use nuclear
> bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a
> second Panama Canal using 300 H-Bombs), Herzog focuses in on long-forgotten
> nuclear projects that nearly led to disaster.
>
> In an unprecedented people's history, Herzog digs deep into archives,
> interviews nuclear scientists, and collects dozens of rare photos. He
> explores the "accidental" drop of a Nagasaki-type bomb on a train
> conductor's home, the implanting of plutonium into patients' hearts, and
> the invention of wild tactical nukes, including weapons designed to kill
> enemy astronauts.
>
> Told in a riveting narrative voice, Herzog---the son of filmmaker Werner
> Herzog---also draws on childhood memories of the final period of the Cold War
> in Germany, the country once seen as the nuclear battleground for NATO and
> the Warsaw Pact countries, and discusses evidence that Nazi scientists knew
> how to make atomic weaponry . . . and chose not to.
>    *Christina MacPherson<http://nuclear-news.net/author/christinamacpherson/>
> * | May 25, 2013 at 7:52 am | Categories: resources -
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