The Uranium Club
Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
by Miriam E. Hiebert
Narrated by Wendy Tremont King
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Pub Date Jul 11 2023 | Archive Date Jul 18 2023
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Description
Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly-he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried-and failed-to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes-two of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions.
From Werner Heisenberg and Germany's nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission's infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known-and hugely consequential-chapter of history.
The cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer.
Advance Praise
“The Uranium Club reads like a detective story with outsized characters and a compelling plot. The book unravels the mystery of how a five-inch uranium cube used by Nazi scientists in World War II ended up in a physics lab at the University of Maryland.” —Cynthia C. Kelly, president, Atomic Heritage Foundation
“Dr. Hiebert weaves a vivid picture of ego, scientific hope, nuclear physics, and discoveries paralyzed by antisemitism and mistrust in a world the Nazis hoped to dominate, if they could succeed.” —Jim Walther, former executive director, National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Available Editions
EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
ISBN | 9798350815801 |
PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
DURATION | 10 Hours, 11 Minutes |
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