Rebuilding the World

Abstract

In the last months of the war, Heisenberg and the Uranium Club try and fail to achieve a chain reaction. In July, ten scientists are taken as prisoners to Farm Hall in England, a bugged facility. While there, Heisenberg and Weizsäcker develop a rationale that German scientists had intentionally failed to build an atomic bomb, which made them morally superior to the Allied scientists who had succeeded in building bombs, dropping them on Japan. Karl-Friedrich receives support and acclaim from exiled Jewish scientists. As head of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen, he works to rebuild science in Germany.