02304cam a2200277 i 4500 889030886 TxAuBib 20230814120000.0 230703s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023022923 9781641608626 HRD 30.00 1641608625 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Hiebert, Miriam E., author. The uranium club [BOOK] : unearthing the lost relics of the Nazi nuclear program / Miriam E. Hiebert ; foreword by Timothy W. Koeth. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2023] xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index. 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. Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. 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. Provided by publisher. 20230814. Nuclear weapons Germany History 20th century. Atomic bomb Germany History 20th century.