Reply #10: "Hitler's Uranium Club" by Jeremy Bernstein

[Lionel Mandrake]

This book reveals a lot about the character of Werner Heisenberg (the author of the uncertainty principle). Heisenberg had led the effort to build nukes for the Nazis during World War Two. He and several other physicists were arrested in May, 1945 and held incommunicado until the end of the year. Their conversations were secretly taped by the British. The tapes were transcribed and translated into English. What they reveal contradicts many of Heisenberg's subsequent claims about what he had done during the war.