DOCUMENTS just released show unequivocally that the renowned German physicist
Werner Heisenberg was building an atomic bomb for his country during the Second
World War. The revelations, in letters and notes made public last week by the
Niels Bohr Archive in Denmark, lay to rest a controversy that has spanned 60
years.
After the war, Heisenberg said he had done his best to sabotage Germany’s
bomb project so that the Nazi government would not get the deadly weapon. But
the unsent letters, written to Heisenberg by Bohr after the war, reveal that
during a visit to Copenhagen in 1941 Heisenberg…
