Science Quote by Annie Jacobsen

“Von Braun and his team had just launched America’s first successful satellite, Explorer I, and as far as the public was concerned, von Braun’s…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Adolf Hitler declared war in 1941. By 1942, Allen Dulles was moved to Switzerland for the purpose of rounding up and importing German scientific…

— Mae Brussell

“Just as the victorious United States appropriated the Third Reich’s discoveries in rocket science and the exploration of outer space, the Nazi drug experiments…

— Norman Ohler

“The Soviets, knowing that the Americans would permit the German scientists to leave if they wished to, attempted to take advantage of the much…

— Charles River Editors

“Early in April 1933, the German government passed a law declaring that Jews (defined as anyone with a Jewish grandparent) could not hold an…

— Walter Isaacson

“In 1940, Heinrich Himmler, wanting to extend SS influence to the rocket program, pressured Wernher von Braun into joining the organization despite his lack…

— Charles River Editors

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of several million…

— James T. Patterson

I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was practically no…

— Noam Chomsky

“The other nations spent only stingily on their science programs, and in some cases neglected them entirely, as the derision hurled at Goddard's seminal…

— Charles River Editors

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert.…

— Winston Churchill

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and…

— Ahmed Chalabi