By July 1945, the Allies and Germans had spent years racing each other to build an atomic bomb. The German physicists were certain of their technological superiority, but had not even taken the first step - building a working reactor. The Manhattan Project scientists, who had panicked that the Germans would build this evil thing first, had made four bombs. But that July, neither side knew for certain how close the other had come. So, just after the Nazi surrender, the Allies captured ten German nuclear scientists - including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, Kurt Diebner and Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker - sequestered them in Farm Hall, a country house in deepest Cambridgeshire, UK, and bugged their rooms.
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