The Virus House

[Dave Monroe]

... well, having spent a little time myself on the physics, the
physicists, the event "itself," and its/their contexts, I liked
Copenhagen fine, is all, though I think perhaps Michael Frayn's Niels
Bohr was rather more forgivving that his historical counterpart.  And I
think the historical Werner Heisenberg was a little more culpable.
Seems to follow Thomas Powers' Heisenberg's War in this, think that's
mentioned in Frayn's endnotes, appendices, even, which are interesting
themselves, esp. the note about how NB, unable to follow the plots of
movies, always brought along an assistant to explain them to him
afterwards.  But do see also Mark Walker, Nazi Science: Myth, Truth and
the German Atomic Bomb, as well as his German National Socialism and the
Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949, and perhaps Paul Lawrence Rose,
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project.  For starters ...  but
Frayn's play of course is a (construction of) reconstruction(s) of a
contentious, perhaps now (if ever) unreconstructible event, so ...