Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

Cornwell, John

ISBN 10: 0670030759 / ISBN 13: 9780670030750

Edité par Viking; Penguin, New York, 2003

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xvi, 535 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades. But while the fact that Hitler swiftly pressed Germany's scientific prowess into the service of a brutal, racist, xenophobic ideology is well known, few realize that German scientists had knowingly broken international agreements and basic codes of morality to fashion deadly weapons even before World War I. In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing. By the war's end, almost every aspect of Germany's scientific culture had been tainted by the exploitation of slave labor, human experimentation, and mass killings. Ultimately, it was Hitler's profound scientific ignorance that caused the Fatherland to lose the race for atomic weapons, which Hitler would surely have used. Cornwell argues that German scientists should be held accountable for the uses to which their knowledge was put-an issue with wide-ranging implications for the continuing unregulated pursuit of scientific progress. / John Cornwell is in the department of history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University. He is a regular feature writer at the Sunday Times (London) and the author and editor of four books on science, including Power to Harm, on the Louisville Prozac trial." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
• Éditeur: Viking; Penguin, New York
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0670030759
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780670030750
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Book by Cornwell John

Présentation de l'éditeur

In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's Reich. He shows how Germany became the world's Mecca for inventive genius, taking the lion's share of Nobel awards, before Hitler's regime hijacked science for wars of conquest and genocidal racism. Cornwell gives a dramatic account of the wide ranging Nazi research projects, from rockets to nuclear weapons; the pursuit of advanced technology for irrational ends, concluding with with penetrating relevance for today: the inherent dangers of science without conscience.