Article ID: CBB246301984

„Der neue Weg“: Mit „interatomarer Energie“ zum „Herrn der Welt“ werden: Zu einem bislang unbekannten Typoskript vom Oktober 1944 (“Inneratomic Energy” as the “New Path” Towards Becoming “Master of the World”) (2020)

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Among the papers of Rudolf Tomaschek (1895–1966) I discovered a 30-page typescript from 1944 by his then assistant Hugo Watzlawek (1912–1995) entitled “Interatomare Energie”. Nowadays one would rather say ‘inneratomic energy’ or ‘nuclear energy’ since the typescript treats issues of nuclear engineering including its potential military uses. It presents an unfiltered, surprisingly informed view into the technocratic mindset, state of knowledge and application horizon of a “technical nuclear physicist” in the Third Reich. Watzlawek in 1944 urgently petitions for more funding for research in nuclear physics and technology, citing analogous research underway in America. The present paper places the typescript within its historical and technical context. My succinctly annotated transcription of the original text—also made freely available online—provides full accessibility to this document.

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Authors & Contributors
Dahn, Ryan
Farrell, Don A.
Joseph, Timothy
Hoerlin, Bettina
Michiel Horn
Mahaffey, James
Concepts
Atomic bomb
World War II
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Manhattan Project
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
United States
Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands)
Netherlands
Japan
Italy
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
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