German nuclear energy project

The German nuclear energy project was an endeavor by scientists during World War II in Nazi Germany to develop nuclear energy and an atomic bomb for practical use. Unlike the competing Allied effort to develop a nuclear weapon the German effort resulted in two rival teams, one working for the military, the second, a civilian effort co-ordinated by the German Post Office.

Further reading

• Jeremy Bernstein and David Cassidy, Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall (2001).
• Charles Frank, ed. Operation Epsilon: the Farm Hall transcripts (1993).
• Samuel Goudsmit, ALSOS: The failure of German science (1947).
• David Irving, The Virus House (1967). The name derives from a sign on the project's reactor building, intended to scare people away. (See the article on Irving for information on his standing in the historical community.)
• David Irving, The German Atomic Bomb: The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany (1983) ISBN 0306801981
• Rainer Karlsch, Hitlers Bombe (Munich: DVA, 2005).
• Thomas Powers, Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (Knopf, 1993).
• Paul Lawrence Rose, Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
• Mark Walker, German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949 (London: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• Mark Walker, Nazi science: Myth, truth, and the German atomic bomb (New York: Plenum Press, 1995).