The history of the atomic bomb

The race for the first atomic bomb - an exciting and gravitational chapter in history. This adventure of the history of science, the meeting of genius and madness is told by the story of the atomic bomb, with "characters" such as Ede Teller, Leo Szilárd, Jenő Wigner, Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein ... In 1896 Henri Becquerel discovered a special radiation in uranium, which Marie Curie called radioactivity. In the following decades, German physicists such as Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg made a decisive contribution to understanding the processes within the nuclear nucleus. In Göttingen, the Mecca of nuclear physicists, an American student, J. Robert Oppenheimer, also learned from them. In early 1939, researchers were inspired by Otto Hahn's statement: the nucleus could be cleaved! So they have taken the first step on the road to liberating nuclear energy. Half a year later, however, World War II broke out, and physicists who had been friends and had fierce debates until then suddenly became the secrecy subjects of two hostile blocks of power ... "Hubert Mania has a style that combines scientific thoroughness, writer's elements of elegance and readability that are difficult to reconcile. " - Süddeutsche Zeitung