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There is a possibly apocryphal story of Heisenberg and the other German a-bomb scientists basically doing this in captivity upon learning of the success of the
by philwelch 4y ago
There is a possibly apocryphal story of Heisenberg and the other German a-bomb scientists basically doing this in captivity upon learning of the success of the Manhattan Project (not building a working bomb, but reasoning out how it was done!)
- jcranmer 4y agoThis is the Farm Hall transcripts, and it really happened. (I don't know if they fully worked out how the bomb worked, but they at least discussed it).