Chasing Heisenberg Quotes

“In February 1939, a Bund rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City drew 20,000 supporters. Marching to the beat of snare drums, men in Nazi uniforms carrying American flags and swastikas had paraded into the Garden where they were greeted by rally organizers. In front of a towering portrait of George Washington, a speaker exhorted the crowd to “protect ourselves . . . against the slimy conspirators and the parasite hand of Jewish Communism.” Meanwhile, a newsreel camera chronicled Nazi guards beating a lone man who dared to protest.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“To his critics who opposed building the bombs, Fermi offered no apologies. “It is no good trying to stop knowledge from going forward,” he said. “Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“It is no good trying to stop knowledge from going forward,” he said. “Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“President Truman called the development of the atom bomb, “the greatest achievement of organized science in history.”248 The Manhattan Project scientists, engineers and private contractors had done what few believed possible: they had built three new towns—Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alamos—and a behemoth industrial plant as large as that of all of America’s automobile manufacturers put together.249 They had transformed Fermi’s historic nuclear chain reaction, a reaction yielding only enough energy to light a flashlight bulb, into the most powerful weapon mankind had ever known. And they had done it in just over a thousand days.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“With time as the controlling factor we could not afford to wait to be sure of anything,” wrote General Groves.112 Instead, the Manhattan Project rushed ahead based on educated guesses, building two, then three different kinds of uranium separation plants and two different kinds of bombs. Redundancy was their best hedge against failure. If one technology did not work, there would be another as backup.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“General Groves contracted with dozens of companies to build the facilities at Oak Ridge and Hanford, imposing impossible deadlines that forced them to design and build simultaneously, and then begin operations even before construction was completed. General Groves would later admit, “Never in history has anyone embarking on an important undertaking had so little certainty about how to proceed as we had then.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“Most experience in life can be comprehended by prior experiences,” the physicist Norris Bradbury would later write, “but the atom bomb did not fit any preconceptions possessed by anybody.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“No one but Professor Heisenberg,” noted his old friend Sam Goudsmit, “could be the brains of a German uranium project, and every physicist throughout the world knew that.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“If the results were accurate (Fermi wanted to do more testing to make sure), he was the first scientist ever to manufacture a brand new atom, an atom unlike any other on planet earth.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

“was the first scientist ever to manufacture a brand new atom, an atom unlike any other on planet earth.”
― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb

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― Michael Joseloff, Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb