Heisenberg Said Nazi Germany Nearly Built A Working Nuclear Reactor: The Math Says Otherwise

Nazi Germany was much further from building a nuclear reactor than Heisenberg claimed

Germans needed twice as much uranium as they possessed to build fully functional reactor

Nazi Germany Was Much Farther From a Working Nuclear Reactor (and a Nuclear Weapon) Than Heisenberg Claimed

Nazi Germany needed about twice as much uranium to make its final reactor work.

Heisenberg Said Nazi Germany Nearly Built A Working Nuclear Reactor: The Math Says Otherwise

After World War II, physicist Werner Heisenberg told the world that Nazi Germany's final nuclear reactor had barely missed working. A new analysis says the gap was far wider.