Walker M. German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-49

Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 290 p.This book by Professor Walker is a full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of 'the bomb'.