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What did Heisenberg Tell Bohr about the Bomb?

In 1941 Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr met privately in Copenhagen. Almost two years later at Los Alamos, Bohr showed a sketch of what he believed was Heisenberg's design for a nuclear weapon

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 272 Issue 5This article was originally published with the title “What did Heisenberg Tell Bohr about the Bomb?” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 272 No. 5 (), p. 92
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0595-92