As one of their most controversial scientists, Heisenberg was key in the Nazis' efforts to develop an atomic bomb. But how close was he to succeeding?

Cast List:

Dr Gerhard Rammer: Deutsches Technikmuseum

Shalina Patel: Historian 

Guy Walters: Author and Historian 

Dr. Mark Walker: Union College, New York 

Nigel Jones: Author and Historian 

Dr. Kathryn Olesko: Georgetown University

Dr. Magnus Brechtken: Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Gunhild Lurås: Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum 

Dr Katherine Sharp Landdeck: Texas Woman’s University 

Egidius Fechter: Atomkeller Museum

Eric Meyers: Narrator 

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