GR-related: NY Times - New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb

[Doug Millison]

February 7, 2002



New Twist on Physicist's Role in Nazi Bomb


By JAMES GLANZ


The leader of Hitler's atomic bomb program, Werner Heisenberg, portrayed
himself after World War II as a kind of scientific resistance hero who
sabotaged Hitler's efforts to build a nuclear weapon.

But in a series of letters and other documents made public yesterday, his
friend and onetime mentor, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, said that is
not so.

Bohr, who died 40 years ago, said that under his beloved protégé,
"everything was being done in Germany to develop atomic weapons." [...]

continues at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/science/07BOMB.html