Oppenheimer in Perspective: Building the Bomb in the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union (1939 – 1949)
In 1938, news that Hitler's Germany was seeking to manufacture an atomic bomb shocked the allies and initiaited an atomic arms race that would decide the war. The United States began a concentrated effort to catch up, and by 1945, both the Soviet Union and America were determined to obtain captured German Scientists in thier […]
