TY - BOOK AU - Hiebert,Miriam E. AU - Koeth,Timothy W. ED - Chicago Review Press, TI - The uranium club: unearthing the lost relics of the Nazi nuclear program SN - 9781641608626 PY - 2023///] CY - Chicago, Illinois PB - Chicago Review Press KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Germany KW - History KW - Military policy KW - 1933-1945 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index; Taken from Germany -- The reactor Hitler tried to build -- Gift of Ninninger N2 - Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany's nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission's infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known--and hugely consequential--chapter of history ER -