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Funny, then, that I found myself standing in the expensive new shopping mall in EI Prat de Liobregat, Barcelona's international airport--fresh-faced for the 1992 Olympics--and staring at little figurines of a saluting Adolf Hitler in a toy store's display case. The absurdity of finding Nazism trwsalued in the mudst of stuffed ducks jarred...
Many stabilization programs have failed in the past, but unless some attempt is made to cure its hyperinflation, Russia could go the way of Weimar Germany following World War I. At that time, when the West refused to help rebuild Germany's economy, the stage was set for Hitler's rise. Conjuring a Russian Hitler may be farfetched, but a Russian dictator with nukes surely would distract Clinton from his single-minded focus on rebuilding America...
...Manhattan Project, America's prodigious World War II program to build an atom bomb, was set in motion by the fear that Hitler's Germany would produce the weapon first. Experts in the U.S. thought German science could have a lead in the race because a German chemist, Otto Hahn, had discovered nuclear fission in 1938. His countryman Werner Heisenberg was considered by many to be the world's leading physicist and was certain to be at the center of any Nazi A-bomb effort...
...facts about the desultory German effort but were worried that they were a smoke screen. Heisenberg, a Nobel laureate already famous for his work in quantum mechanics, was drafted for the weapons program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome of the war. From then on, Heisenberg apparently wanted his old scientific friends in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the U.S. to know that Germany was working on power reactors, not bombs...
Though he said he was "not 100% anxious" to provide Hitler with a bomb, Heisenberg never claimed he blocked the program out of moral compunctions. This book asserts he did: "He killed it," Powers writes. It is a line of argument that has always upset Manhattan Project scientists because it suggests that Germans who worked for the Nazis struck a superior moral stance. Readers need not agree with Powers. He provides plenty of evidence and argument on all sides of the issue...