Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (1945) [pdf]

Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by andrew_ on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:48AM (#19114035)

Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript.

The comments about how they see history being written, specifically about the German contributions, comes across as particularly naive but evident of men who were clearly distraught and disoriented.

And their predictions about Stalin and Russia were ominous but nearly correct several times over.

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Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by marksweston on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:07AM (#19114183)

> Fascinating stuff, really interesting characters. I for one never knew the Germans were pursuing fission for the production of "engines". Do yourselves a favor and read the entire transcript.

I'm fairly sure that by "engines" they meant reactors.

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Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by mgoetzke on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:26AM (#19115038)

They talk about a 'Maschine' in the German version 'a machine' and clearly mean a machine to produce energy i.e a reactor.

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Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by matt4077 on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:03AM (#19114157)

The terminology was obviously not settled at this point. I’m almost certain ‚engine‘ refers to a reactor.

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