Operation Epsilon: The Farm Hall TranscriptsFrom July to December in 1945, ten German scientists, Bagge, Diebner, Gerlach, Hahn, Harteck, Heisenberg, Korsching, von Laue, von Weizsacker, and Wirtz, were held and clandestinely recorded by the British. The scientists discuss their progress and react to the bombing of Hiroshima. |
Contents
Publishers foreword | 1 |
Archival note | 10 |
Operation Epsilon | 17 |
1 May 1945 | 62 |
318 July 1945 | 107 |
viii | 168 |
1415 September 1945 | 195 |
Production of heavy water | 209 |
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