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The Man Who Sabotaged the Nazi Nuclear Program with One Wrench
Werner Heisenberg's Copenhagen visit in September 1941 was one of the most consequential diplomatic failures of the war. But the real sabotage of the German atomic bomb project was more mundane and more heroic: in 1942, ...
The Holocaust Survivor Who Built the World's First Computer
Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-Jewish mathematician who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States, where he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. He is the co-inventor of the Monte Carlo method (wit...
The German Submarine That Surrendered — Twice
U-977, commanded by Captain Heinz Schäffer, is famous for surrendering to Argentine authorities in 1945, claiming it had been at sea when Germany surrendered. But the more interesting story is U-530, commanded by Otto We...