The persistent controversy surrounding the role of the German scientists in developing an atomic bomb during the Second World War can be laid to rest by the release of the Farm Hall transcripts.
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Walker, M. Myths of the German atom bomb. Nature 359, 473–474 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/359473a0
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