Joe, Lance;
Another interesting character in that era was an unlikely OSS operative
by the name of Moe Berg. This second- string major- league baseball
player (catcher) was sent to a attend physics meeting in Switzerland
where Heisenberg was scheduled to deliver a paper on nuclear physics; if
he mentioned anything about achieving fission, Berg was to stand up and
shoot him dead with the pistol he carried in his pocket. Heisenberg
didn't say anything regarding the German effort to achieve nuclear
fission and lived.
The book was "The Catcher Was A Spy" or something like that.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Lance [mailto:jolylance@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:19 PM
To: Albaugh, Neil; Jon Wennerberg
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: I know exactly where I am (non-LSR)
Read the same book, very interesting---there was a long running stage
play
(also done on PBS) about what Heisenberg was really up to when he
visited
Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in the middle of WWII.
Lance
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: "Jon Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: I know exactly where I am (non-LSR)
> Jon;
>
> I read an interesting book a few years ago called "Heisenberg's War".
He
> headed up Germany's nuclear weapons development effort during WW II;
the
> book makes a good case for the fact that he purposely kept them from
> completing development of those weapons.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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