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Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
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Simon Prebble
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John Cornwell
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By the war's end, almost every aspect of Germany's scientific culture had been tainted by the exploitation of slave labor, human experimentation, and mass killings. Ultimately, it was Hitler's profound scientific ignorance that caused the Fatherland to lose the race for atomic weapons, which Hitler would surely have used. Cornwell argues that German scientists should be held accountable for the uses to which their knowledge was put, an issue with wide-ranging implications for the continuing unregulated pursuit of scientific progress.
©2003 John Cornwell (P)2003 Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Recorded by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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- De Billy en 07-21-14
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- De: Ray Monk
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 35 h y 17 m
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, Ray Monk, author of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the enigma of Oppenheimer’s motivations and his complex personality.
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A comprehensive biography
- De Jean en 10-17-14
De: Ray Monk
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Chasing Heisenberg
- The Race for the Atom Bomb
- De: Michael Joseloff
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 3 h y 23 m
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After a devastating run of German victories, Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But far from the battlefields, Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them a distant second behind the Germans in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world’s first nuclear weapon. For the Allies’ top scientists, the race is deeply personal. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Samuel Goudsmit have known Hitler’s chief atomic scientist, Werner Heisenberg, for years.
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A Good Overview/Introduction to the Bomb Race
- De Ashlyn en 08-05-20
De: Michael Joseloff
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Churchill's Bomb
- How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications.
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Loved it!! This was great.
- De MAC24211 en 09-08-21
De: Graham Farmelo
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Blackett's War
- The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else.
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First time science used to fight a war
- De Jean en 08-20-14
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Tuxedo Park
- A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: John Kroft
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
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Fantastic book, weak technical execution
- De Paul en 10-13-18
De: Jennet Conant
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited the 20th century.
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Strong finish
- De David's Opinions and Reviews en 05-04-14
De: Craig Nelson
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Speer
- Hitler's Architect
- De: Martin Kitchen
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 19 h
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In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years.
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Interesting, but extremely biased
- De Rodney en 10-28-18
De: Martin Kitchen
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- De: Mark Wolverton
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Amid this rising tension, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: detonating nuclear warheads in space to create an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured.
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Extraordinary interesting history
- De Magnus Almgren en 10-23-20
De: Mark Wolverton
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Accessory to War
- The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
- De: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and military planners care about many of the same things: multi-spectral detection, ranging, tracking, imaging, high ground, nuclear fusion, and access to space. Tyson and Lang call it a "curiously complicit" alliance.
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Inspiring, educational, patriotic.
- De Kevin en 09-17-18
De: Avis Lang, y otros
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
- De: Paul Ham
- Narrado por: Robert Meldrum
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives.
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While extraordinary, I can only give it 3 stars
- De Gillian en 12-17-14
De: Paul Ham
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Racing for the Bomb
- The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
- De: Robert S. Norris
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 23 h y 1 m
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Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 04-22-15
De: Robert S. Norris
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The Invention of Air
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Best-selling author Steven Johnson recounts - in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion - the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a title of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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Good scientific history
- De Roger en 05-03-10
De: Steven Johnson
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- Anonymous User
- 09-19-05
Interesting
I found this book to be a little more technical than I thought it would be but was hooked, nevertheless.
Fascinating.
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- Mary
- 04-30-04
A good combination
This was a very interesting and enjoyably read combination of science in Germany, Hitler's serious character flaws, and the largely unsuccessful military use of technology in two wars. The only dissapointment was the end of the book where the author delves into social science and morality. His sources and conclusions are so poorly chosen that it made me question the historical facts he presented earlier. Skip the gibberish of the last few chapters and enjoy the history.
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- Barry
- 05-02-12
A must read for all scientist!
If you are either a World War II buff or work in the sciences, this book is extremely informative. John Cornwell does an excellent job in providing insight on how each scientific achievement helped the Allies win the war and conversely how Hitler's decisions regarding technology lost the Axis powers the war. He does an excellent job in the last chapter explaining how the scientific community can learn from the mistakes in the past as well as describing how today's scientist cannot ignore the social and geopolitical ramifications of his/her technological break-through(s). This is especially true when they can be put to use in the battle field.
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- 03-15-04
Good
I enjoyed this book a great deal, but it left me wanting more. I suppose that this is a characteristic of a good book... but it left a lot of unanswered questions. It seemed to skim over a lot of important aspects of the war, such as the Nazi "war on cancer" and even their race to build an A-bomb. Still, I recommend this book if only for the final chapter about science and social responsibility.
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- My Profile Name
- 05-28-21
Dangerous scientists - researchers still exist
The reality is that These dangerous scientists and researchers with PhDs exist today. Racist, sexists, monsters who do evil and are paid to conduct their "research" is easily covered up with "tenure". Where ground truth is based on trust and honesty, some scientists abuse their blind trust they are privileged to; Some PhDs go on to horrifically abuse people / students/ staff and their positions. This book gives a look back into history that shaped and paved the way from Hilter's time to the current malignant dangerous scientists today, in 2021.
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- deborah
- 12-17-11
Excellent Look at German Science during WWII
Very good explanation and depiction of the effect of Hitler's rise on the scientific community within Germany and occupied Europe. Bombmaking, hereditary experimentation, and the feelings of Hitler's scientists after America's use of the bomb, and their involvement in its early experimentation, were all fleshed out.
I knew Germany was a scientific leader before the war, but did not know that nazism destroyed this position. Also new information: IG Farber, the German company which profited from slave labor and who tortured workers, was dissolved after the war to become Bayer, BASF, and Hoescht, all recognized brands today.
One technical problem: parts Chapter 7 repeated itself, and I had to fast forward to find where I left off. Otherwise, well narrated and organized.
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- Dave
- 04-12-04
Excellent due to great content and reader
Both the reader and the content of this audiobook are excellent. I know that I have made a wise purchase when I find myself listening to it over and over again. The details surrounding the development of the German atomic bomb are interesting, and the author examines the moral dilemma of both the German and American scientists in its development. The audiobook is by no means limited to the search for the atomic bomb, however. The development of radio, code-breaking, rocketry and many more are covered. This audiobook is entertaining from beginning to end, and contains many obscure details that will thrill a history or science enthusiast. The reader only adds to an already excellent audiobook.
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- Ronald
- 09-16-04
Hitlers Scientists
Content was great and interesting for about the first half. After that it much of the "history" disappeared and it became more of a commentary on being a responsible scientist. A little too much preaching on this and a little too many "environmentalist" type opinions.
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- Ryan Sethman
- 04-25-16
Biased
most of the information in this book is biased and common knowledge at this point.
Nothing new here.
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- Warren
- 09-06-05
Marginally Informative
I admit that I was hoping for sinister details of the terrible work of Dr Mengele, but found mostly information about the atomic discoveries. I was disappointed to be lectured on what I should do in my own generation. There is quite a lot of well presented information concerning the progression of the war and how it affected the scientists of Germany. The two stars refer to the excellent research and simply explained incredible major discoveries of men and women from the beginning of the 20th century through the middle. The three missing stars reflect the unnecessary flogging about responsibility that I as a reader didn't ask for and don't deserve. It made me think but then I resented the author's use of his advertised history book as a pulpit. I would have enjoyed much more information on the details of discovery of commonplace things like how plasma transfusions were discovered and saved so many troops. I wish I had only half my money back.
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