Chain reaction. Imagine what would have this world become if Germany had had the nuclear bomb before the americans, during the WW2. It's well known that they were actually trying to build it. Heisenberg had all the details necessary, he also started building the reactor, the only environment in which such a chain reaction could have developed.. Yet. They couldn't build it in time. Because the scientist had made a major mistake in calculating the mass of Uranium needed to build one bomb - he thought that a quantity of 13,000 kg was needed!; on the other hand, ironically, in America, the Jewish scientists (sent away years before from Germany), discovered that only 1 kg of Uranium was enough to build it. So they had the bomb, they used it in japan, and the world of today looks as we all know it.
Questions:
How would have the world looked like if Germany had won the war?
Would Heisenberg have given the secret formula for the nuclear bomb to the German leaders, if he had had it? Would he have preferred dying as a hero, taking the secret with him, thus preventing the usage of the devastating bomb by the German leaders?
Where is the border between science, duty, fear and morality?
Questions in a chain reaction.