heisenberg's life was quite interesting. he was the scientist in charge of the nuclear weapons project in germany during world war ii. by the end of the war, not much progress had been made in this area in germany. the reason, as he later mentioned, was heisenberg's reluctance to build an atomic weapon. the german team could have actually gone much further; in fact, heisenberg knew exactly what needed to be done, as claimed, but his conscience wouldn't allow it.
to make matters even more intense, when the americans found out that heisenberg was working on an atomic bomb in germany, they panicked and attempted to assassinate him while he was teaching in switzerland (1944).
in the class, moe berg (a baseball coach who was hired as an assassin) was listening to heisenberg and concluded that the bomb wouldn't be developed anytime soon, so he left the meeting without killing heisenberg.
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