What Are The Similarities Between Bohr And Heisenberg

The person I would choose to add to Copenhagen would be Julius Robert Oppenheimer. Better known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb," Oppenheimer, though succeeding Bohr and Heisenberg by actually putting his work into practice through the Manhattan Project and development of the nuclear bomb, was a peer of both Bohr and Heisenberg in generation and in study, devoting his early career to theoretical physics. Although the three men were representatives of different, often conflicting groups (as the Danish Bohr was considered a Jew, German Heisenberg aligned himself with the Nazis, and Oppenheimer was an American but with known Communist sympathies and oft-questioned loyalties), they have similarities in history and personality that would make
As clearly both Bohr and Heisenberg understood the power and potential of such a weapon, it would be intriguing to see both men's candid and face-to-face reactions to the man that set the wheels in action towards such a possibility, not to mention the more idealistic, emotionally invested Margrethe's reception of the deaths of so many people. When Bohr and Heisenberg are debating the necessity of Germany's development of the bomb in the latter half of the paly, Heisenberg argues that by inhibiting Germany's efforts to create their own atomic weapon, "maybe [he's] choosing something even worse than defeat. Because the bomb [the Allies] are building is to be used on us," showing that at least part of the drive for the bomb was in the interest of self-defense in the minds of many. Heisenberg goes on to say that Oppenheimer claimed that the fact that the Allies didn't have the bomb in time to use on Germany was his one regret, and when Bohr counters that Oppenheimer "tormented himself" afterwards, Heisenberg criticizes the lack of