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Book Review | The Failure of Aryan Physics

JL;DR SUMMARY Historian Mark Walker's book, "Hitler's Atomic Bomb," delves into Nazi Germany's nuclear research and the tensions between scientific discovery, fascist ideology, and war. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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World War IiAtomic BombNazi GermanyCold WarAlbert EinsteinQuantum MechanicsWerner HeisenbergNuclear ResearchAryan PhysicsJewish Physics

Places mentioned

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
"In 1934, Heisenberg, in his early 30s but already a professor in Leipzig and a Nobel laureate, was being considered for a more prestigious professorship in Munich."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"Heisenberg, in his early 30s but already a professor in Leipzig and a Nobel laureate, was being considered for a more prestigious professorship in Munich."
Berlin, Germany
"to satisfy the Nazi hierarchy, Himmler promoted Heisenberg not to the prestigious and disputed Munich post but to important positions in Berlin."
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
"The play depicts a never-fully-explained meeting in September 1941 when Heisenberg and his close collaborator Carl Friedrich von Weizscker traveled to Copenhagen, where Heisenberg met with his former mentor Niels Bohr."
New Mexico, United States
"A year or two later, the factories that would be needed to make the components of a bomb were subject to constant Allied air attacks, and the countrys atomic ambitions had been scaled back to simply trying to build a nuclear reactor (which they called a uranium machine)."

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