Nuclear dawn: F. E. Simon and the race for atomic weapons in World War II
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CONTENTS
Illustrations
xv
1
Growing up into a world at war
1
Franz's war
2
Lotte 's war 7
2
Berlin
1919-1930 11
3 Breslau 1931-1933 18
Discovering America
20
Portents of the storm
26
4
Oxford
1933-1939 34
Getting settled
34
Growth at the Clarendon
37
The exodus continues
40
An eye on Germany
50
The darkening political scene
52
A farewell to peace
56
5
Any capable physicist
1939-1941 57
A German "secret weapon"?
57
The prospect of German invasion
61
Transatlantic lifeline
65
The Maud Committee at work
68
The Maud Report and its reception
75
Beginnings: United States
81
Beginnings: Germany
83
Beginnings: USSR and Japan
87
6
Industrial Plants
.
Heretofore Deemed Impossible
1942-1945 89
Mobilization and cooperation
89
A General takes charge
91
The long stalemate
98
The Manhattan Project in
1943 103
Restarting cooperation
105
The barrier question
1
09
The family reunited
112
Manhattan: continuing uncertainties
117
xiv CONTENTS
Germany: the Army's withdrawal and its consequences
120
Germany: the war closes in
127
The round-up of nuclear scientists
130
Awaiting the end
133
7
Why Manhattan?
137
Prewar developments
137
The missile alternative
140
Inside Farm Hall: a version for the world
143
Organizational factors
149
Raw materials and priorities
152
Effects of enemy action
154
Nuclear projects in the Soviet Union and Japan
158
Vicissitudes of an alliance
166
Looking ahead
170
8
Something reasonable again
175
Approaching absolute zero: experimentation and theory
176
Nuclear legacy
178
Committees, committees
181
Public voice for science
183
9
Security lapses
191
The
Fuchs
affair
191
The view from the Soviet side
198
10
Germany in the balance
202
Signals of survival
202
The Pakenham letters
209
Who should be invited to Britain?
219
Heisenberg
's visit to Oxford
224
Would Simon visit Germany?
229
11
A rounded life
235
Summer holidays
235
Professional travels
237
Climacteric year:
1956 245
Appendix: Simon's Report to Perrin about
Heisenberg, 11
March
1948 255
Notes
257
Bibliography
269
Index
273 |
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