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Nazis and the bomb: nuclear archaeology finds Werner Heisenberg mistook how close he was

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Scientists have found that the Nobel laureate may have grossly overestimated how close his team was to having a working nuclear reactor, much less a nuclear weapon…

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  • Reported by The Hindu and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:04:24 UTC.

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