A Short Video
Oppenheimer vs. Heisenberg
You’ll learn more if you read Oppenheimer and Heisenberg: Friends, Enemies and Architects of Destiny – but if you don’t like books, or want to watch something while you wait for your copy to arrive, here’s a short video that covers the official version of events.
Of course some of the details on J. Robert Oppenheimer didn’t make it into this video, or even Nolan’s blockbuster movie. Some details of what Germany achieved during WWII are still classified until 2045. Officially, Werner Heisenberg, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for coming up with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and for being one of the founding fathers of quantum physics – officially he was a genius before WWII, then an incompetent bumbling fool for about six years, then within days of the Americans dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, he was a genius again, who suddenly understood how atomic bombs could be made (again.)
Nothing to see here, (that’s why they needed to classify so much for a hundred years) so move along! Really, there’s nothing interesting about Oppenheimer or Heisenberg or the cargo of German U-boats that landed in the Americas after WWII ended or who accompanied the cargo on the submarines or why Oppenheimer said the Trinity test in New Mexico was not the first atomic detonation or why all the famous physicists on both sides learned to read Sanskrit…. No reason at all for you to want to read
Oppenheimer and Heisenberg: Friends, Enemies and Architects of Destiny
the extended version is now available as a Kindle e-book, as an audiobook, or as a paperback
For anyone who has not read his book I suggest doing so. It is very informative and thought provoking. It sits on my shelf next to his other works which I also recommend.