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The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
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Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germanys failed World War II atomicbomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium. Its a riveting tale of competing German ambitions and arrogant mistakes, a nonfiction thriller tracking teams of American scientists as they race to prevent Hitler from beating the United States to the atomic bomb. Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic BombTim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube.He recognized the mysterious object instantlyhe had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had triedand failedto build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubestwo of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions.Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germanys nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Missions infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a littleknownand hugely consequentialchapter of history.The cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer.
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