#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
“…while the Hitlerboys would be cranked up to unnatural levels of speed…by the latest pills…some still under research at IG Farben.”

IG Farben,chemical manufacturer who aided Nazi war efforts.
#Gravity'sRainbow
#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes

#ThePassenger
#CormacMcCarthy
#McCarthy25
Groves hired him because he had seen that he could not be intimidated. That was all. A lot of very smart people thought he was possibly the smartest man God ever made. Odd chap, that God.

#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes

#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes

About the conference at Harnack House on June 4 1942,Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments and War Production,wrote, “…Heisenberg had not given any final answer to my question whether a successful nuclear fission could be kept under control….

#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes

The 1941 Copenhagen meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr was described after the war by Heisenberg and even later recounted by Elizabeth, Heisenberg’s wife, and Aage, Bohr ‘s son, with the details of the conversation varying significantly.

“As Bohr explained…no one could take seriously anymore the image of electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets...”
#TheRigorofAngels #WilliamEgginton

“…Hantaro Nagaoka, had postulated in 1903 a "Saturnian" model of the atom with flat rings of electrons…”
#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes