Hitler's Atomic Bomb

Mark Walker is the John Bigelow Professor of History at Union College, Schenectady, New York. His research interests include twentieth-century science, particularly science and technology under National Socialism. Previous publications include The Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism (Cambridge, 2009), and The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accomodation (Cambridge, 2012).

• Introduction; Part I. The Bomb: 1. Farm hall; 2. Nuclear fission; 3. Lightning war; 4. Selling uranium; 5. Total war; 6. The War is Lost; Part II. Living with the Bomb; 7. Oversimplifications; 8. Compromising with Hitler; 9. Rehabilitation; 10. Copenhagen; Conclusion; Epilogue. The historian as historical actor.

'Hitler's Atomic Bomb is a masterful account of the German nuclear program in history and mythology. Based on the latest research, Walker demonstrates that Nazi Germany never had the resources to build a bomb, but that possibility haunted and divided physicists long after the war.' Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War