Search results
Nazi Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were variously called Uranverein (Uranium Society) or Uranprojekt (Uranium Project).
18 paź 2016 · “I don’t believe a word of the whole thing,” declared Werner Heisenberg, the scientific head of the German nuclear program, after hearing the news that the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Germany began its secret program, called Uranverein, or “uranium club,” in April 1939, just months after German scientists ...
Als Uranprojekt wird die Gesamtheit der Arbeiten im Deutschen Reich während des Zweiten Weltkrieges bezeichnet, bei denen die 1938 entdeckte Kernspaltung technisch nutzbar gemacht werden sollte. Hauptziel war dabei, die Möglichkeiten zum Bau einer Kernwaffe abzuschätzen sowie einen Demonstrations-Kernreaktor zu bauen. Trotz einiger Erfolge ...
15 sie 2023 · Fear of a German nuclear bomb spurred the Manhattan Project. But how far behind were the Nazis?
Nazi officials agreed with Heisenberg to fund the project and grant the scientists special privileges like traveling to neutral countries as long as they pursued a practical exploration of nuclear fission. The main focus was on building a "uranium machine" or nuclear reactor.
Uranprojekt, also known informally as the Uranverein (meaning Uranium Club) was a secret German project to research and develop atomic weapons and energy during the Second World War.
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German theoretical physicist and 1932 Nobel Prize winner. Heisenberg was a main contributor to the German atomic program during World War II, in direct competition with the Manhattan Project. In 1941, he visited Niels Bohr in Copenhagen to discuss nuclear research.
