Describes how German scientists under Hitler knowingly broke international agreements in order to build deadly weapons prior to World War I, discussing German innovation and breakthroughs that paved the way to the discovery of atomic fission and how such innovations were tainted by Hitler's xenophobic ideologies. 125,000 first printing.

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John Cornwell is in the department of history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University. He is a regular feature writer at the Sunday Times (London) and the author and editor of four books on science, including Power to Harm, on the Louisville Prozac trial.

John Cornwell has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge since 1990 and is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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