> It was so obvious the whole German uranium set up was on a ludicrously small scale. Here was the central group of laboratories, and all it amounted to was a little cave, a wing of a small textile factory, a few rooms in an old brewery. To be sure, the laboratories were well equipped, but compared to what we were doing in the United States it was still small-time stuff

Thank God the Germans didn't realize the potential there or the world would have looked very differently now. It's not as if they didn't have the technical chops to make something like this work. They even had working jet fighters.

Sometimes I wonder if Heisenberg secretly took them on the scenic route. Because his whole uranium cubes on strings thing looks a bit contrived.