Bohr archive releases documents on 1941 meeting with Heisenberg

[ via John Bartelt ] The Nils Bohr Archive has released, ahead of schedule and on the web, a collection of correspondence between Bohr and Werner Heisenberg pertaining to their 1941 meeting in Copenhagen. At the meeting, dramatized in the play of the same name, it was supposed that Heisenberg convinced Bohr that he wasn’t going all-out to build an A-Bomb for the Nazis. These letters, according to the institute, argue otherwise.

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