Richard von Schirach

Simon Pare

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists who were believed to have worked on the German nuclear program. Interned in an English country house owned by MI6, their conversations were secretly recorded. "Operation Epsilon" sought to determine how close Nazi Germany had come to building an atomic bomb. It was in captivity that the interned physicists first heard of the attack on Hiroshima. That night was also one of great shock and personal defeat for the physicists—they assumed they alone had discovered nuclear fission. This is the story of Nazi Germany's hunt for an atomic bomb, and a tale of the genius, hubris, and guilt of lauded, respected scientists.

Operation Epilson - Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsacker and the German Bomb

The Night of Physicists

Wolfgang Büscher

Asian Absences is the contemplative and lyrical narrative of a traveller whose sensory and spiritual journey takes him from Copenhagen to Eastern Asia. En route, he passes through a feverish India and an abandoned hospital for lepers, undertakes a hallucinogenic mountain pilgrimage with shamans in Kathmandu, embarks on an industrial oil tanker to Singapore, and examines the "beautifully odd" curiosities of Tokyo's metropolis, before arriving at his final destination, the elusive Tibetan city of Shangri-La. Wolfgang Büscher vividly captures the conflicting emotional and intellectual responses of a stranger in distant lands, evoking both the exotic wonder and threatening otherness of unfamiliar cultures that repeatedly challenge mythic assumptions about the East.

Simon Pare

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