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The mystery of whether or not Werner Heisenberg gave Niels Bohr a drawing that Bohr came to believe was that of a German nuclear weapon, is discussed and resolved.
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Bernstein, J. The Drawing or Why History Is Not Mathematics. Phys. perspect. 5, 243–261 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-003-0177-8
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- Hans Bethe
- Aage Bohr
- Niels Bohr
- James Chadwick
- Leslie Groves
- Werner Heisenberg
- J. Hans D. Jensen
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Abraham Pais
- Rudolf Peierls
- Robert Serber
- Edward Teller
- Victor Weisskopf
- Copenhagen
- German Bomb Project
- Los Alamos
- Manhattan Project
- chain reaction
- nuclear fission
- nuclear reactor
- moderator
- plutonium
- uranium