Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Facinating....I just found a site containing a discussion of the Farm Hall trranscripts which affirms Heisenberg's public story, but contradicts completely a book I recently read which states that the transcripts show that Heisenberg was lying. Who to believe? Dan C. At 02:51 PM 04-12-00 -0500, Marc James Small wrote: >At 07:39 AM 12/4/2000 -0500, Dan Cardish wrote: >>So even German hero's like Heisenberg who led the German atomic bomb >>program were not immune from the Nazis. And forget about the myth that he >>propogated after the war that he intentionally led the German a-bomb >>program in the wrong direction. Not true. > >Well, the truth of this is VERY much up in the air right now. Academics of >all stripes and persuasions are spilling much ink on this topic. But I >believe the majority view at this moment is that Heisenberg DID >deliberately mislead the German A-Bomb research. See the PROJECT EPSILON: >THE FARM HALL TRANSCRIPTS for some interesting words from Heisenberg himself. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > >