The "From" bug strikes again :-)

[Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>]

See, e.g.,:
>From a bio note on Heisenberg:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Heisenberg.html

"During the Second World War he headed the unsuccessful German nuclear weapons
project. He worked with Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission,
on the development of a nuclear reactor but failed to develop an effective
program for nuclear weapons. Whether this was because of lack of resources or
a lack of a desire to put nuclear weapons in the hands of the Nazis, it is
unclear. 

After the war he was interned in Britain with other leading German scientists.
However he returned to Germany in 1946 when he was appointed director of the
Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Göttingen. In 1958 the
Institute moved to Munich and Heisenberg continued as its director. 

But, see also:
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/journal/issues/1997/feb/abs204.html

Another ref:
http://www.csr.utexas.edu/personal/leuliette/HTML/book_1099.html

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
> 
> At 08:14 08.08.2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >I believe way beyond the shadow of a doubt that President Truman made the
> correct decision.  My Father and wife's father were posed to invade the,
> then Japanese aggressor (who knows I or my wife might have never been). I
> sincerely believe that the people of Japan, who now represent a new
> generation, have new ideals and this is good. The one question for everyone
> I have is that do they remember that Germany and Japan during WW II were
> developing their own capability for nuclear destruction.
> 
> There was not the slightest chance for Germany or Japan to develop a
> nuclear bomb. Germany had an assembly of uranium, where a small
> multiplication of neutrons could be achieved, no self-sustaining chain
> reaction was possible. There was no technology to enrich uranium or to
> breed plutonium, therefore no access to the necessary fissile material.
> There was during the last years of WWII no money and no infrastructure
> available for such a development. Japan was far behind Germany regarding
> nuclear research, I am not sure that they even knew about the theoretical
> possibility.
> 
> I know, that it has been often been used nearly as an excuse, that the USA
> was suspicious that a nuclear bomb was under construction in Germany - but
> was and is a myth and counter intelligence should have known better.
> 
> Franz
> 
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