This is a paperback edition of Professor Walker's full-scale
examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military
and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. It
argues that the German decision not to attempt the production of
nuclear weapons during World War II came as a result of economic
and political developments, not scientific or moral considerations,
and was at the time a perfectly reasonable policy. Professor Walker
also places nuclear fission research in the contexts of the war
effort and German cultural imperialism, including the plunder and
exploitation of "Greater Germany," the German slave labor economy,
and the ambivalent interaction between the Nazi party and the
German physicists.
The book begins at the height of the Empire, and carries the
story through to the founding of the two postwar republics in order
to emphasize continuity before and after the Third Reich, and to
compare the scientists' activity during the war and after the shock
of Hiroshima and the Nuremberg trials. Throughout, Professor Walker
explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand,
what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the
German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of "the
bomb."
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