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Rose, used a tone and phrasing that indicated that "he has only just<br />

now understood the solution" to a small critical mass for the<br />

bomb, 13 since "others" reported a critical mass of about 4 kg. This<br />

too only deepens the mystery. For Rose, an adherent of the Legend<br />

- though now in its highly modified post-Farm Hall declassification<br />

mode - the "others" could be the Allied press reports themselves. 14<br />

In the years immediately after the war, the Dutch-Jewish<br />

Manhattan Project physicist Samuel Goudsmit explained the whole<br />

Dutch-Jewish Manhattan Project Physicist Samuel Goudsmit<br />

13 Q.v. Paul Lawrence Rose, Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb<br />

Project: A Study in German Culture (Berkeley: 1998), pp. 217-221. Thomas<br />

Powers notes that this lecture was "something of a scientific tour de force - to<br />

come up with a working theory of bomb design in so short a time, after years of<br />

laboring under fundamental misconceptions." (Heisenberg's War: The Secret<br />

History of the German Bomb(1993), pp. 439-440).<br />

14 Ibid., p. 218.<br />

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