 | General Leslie R. Groves - History - 2009 - 494 pages
...final analysis he seemed to realize that this was in large part the fault of his own group. HEISENBERG: We wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend...the spring of 1942, that they should employ 120,000 just for building the thing up. Then up cropped the apology that the reason the Germans had not succeeded... | |
 | Kristie Macrakis - Germany - 1993 - 311 pages
...disagreed: "I don't believe that but I am thankful we didn't succeed." Heisenberg, in turn, stated: "We wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend...should employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up."85 Even if the project scientists had gotten all they wanted from the government, Weizsacker thought... | |
 | Paul Lawrence Rose - History - 2023 - 376 pages
...interesting remark that reveals what lay behind this cryptic expression; he had observed then that "we wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend to the Government in the spring of i942 that they should employ i20,000 men just for building the thing up."14 There had indeed been a... | |
 | Jeremy Bernstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 420 pages
...50 The rockets, some of which landed on London. D i EBNER : Thousands worked on that.51 HEISENBERG: We wouldn't have had the moral courage to recommend...should employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up.52 WEIZSACKER: I believe the reason we didn't do it was because all the physicists didn't want to... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker - Mathematics - 2003 - 474 pages
...German program was unable to achieve building a bomb ([4, p. 122] and [2]): "HEISENBERG: We wouldn 't have had the moral courage to recommend to the government...employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up. WEIZSACKER: I believe the reason we didn 't do it was because all the physicists didn 't want to do... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker - Mathematics - 2003 - 474 pages
...German program was unable to achieve building a bomb t[4]. p. 122 and [2]): "HE1SENBERG: We wouldn 'l have had the moral courage to recommend to the government in the spring of 1942 that they should employ 120.000 men just for building the thing up. WE1ZSACKER: 1 believe the reason we didu 't do it was hecause... | |
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t have had the moral courage to recommend to the government in the spring of 1942 that they should employ 120,000 men just for building the thing up. 