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Alsos (Paperback, 1985 ed.)
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Alsos (Paperback, 1985 ed.)
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During the final weeks of World War II in Europe, as Allied armies
swept across a chaotic, battle-torn Germany, two teams of the
world's leading nuclear scientists were desperately at work. One
team, sequestered in the New Mexican desert, hastened to assemble
the atomic bombs that would shake the world later that summer. The
other team, a group of Nazi-sponsored physicists and technicians in
southern Germany, struggled to do something that, unbeknownst to
them, the Allies had done two years earlier: build a critical,
self-sustaining nuclear reactor. Meanwhile, a different kind of
team was running its own race against time. Convinced (erroneously)
that the Germans were close to creating their own superweapon, the
Allies sent an American unit of scientists, soldiers, and secret
agents established by Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves into Nazi
Germany. Their orders: find the German scientific team before they
could provide Hitler with atomic power. The scientific head of the
mission: a Dutch-American physicist named Samuel A. Goudsmit. The
mission code name: Alsos. As his small entourage moved closer to
the German research camp, Goudsmit revisited familiar people and
places now changed forever by the war. The first Allied scientist
to interrogate the captured physicists, Goudsmit heard first hand
about life in a Nazi Germany in which they had lived and worked for
over a decade. Most importantly, as the last person to review
German nuclear research papers before military classification
barred them from the public eye, Goudsmit was uniquely qualified to
answer the most puzzling question: why, after their spectacular
early successes, did German nuclear research efforts fall so
miserably?Goudsmit's insights into the errors and hindrances that
frustrated the German scientists, as well as his penetrating
character analyses, remain uncannily accurate, as proven a
half-century later by the now de-classified documents.
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