Review of Jewish science fraud Robert Jungk: Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
Belongs as a specimen of mid-rank Jewish propaganda with Kevin B MacDonald's collection of evidence, September 25, 2012
Originally published in German in 1956. Some English universities recommended this in the 1960s as general reading for new undergraduates. In fact, I still have my copy—perhaps some day new students will be recommended to read up on Jewish frauds. First English translation 1958. It covers events up to the claimed Soviet nuclear H bomb, and the 'Lucky Dragon' incident of supposed irradiated Japanese fishermen. Jungk was apparently a Berlin Jew, born 1913, who studied European classics and got a PhD in 'modern European history'—presumably on Europe since the French Revolution.
I referenced Kevin MacDonald's trilogy on Jews because I thought Jungk might count as a supplement; but of course it's now much better known that Jewish trickery spreads over a vast extent of human activities, including the Second World War itself.
I reread this to try to disentangle mythology from truth. Jungk, as might be guessed, says virtually nothing about the science or technology—or mistakes. There is (for example) no account of separation of U235; no account of why 'heavy water' might be important, or how it's isolated; no account even of where uranium was mined. Jungk says in effect that radioactive poison can now be made more or less indefinitely—but this seems not true since the supply of neutrons seemed/seems fixed by the amount of uranium mined. Jungk made little attempt to check anything, though there are a few letters to him from physicists.
Jungk's main attitude is rather awestruck reverence in quotation—for example, a Japanese physicist is quoted as saying only an atomic bomb could do this. (Wrong, in fact). All his judgments of the competence of physicists are second-hand. This approach tends not to work: for example, Jungk says hugely detailed calculations were needed. (He doesn't say what they were and in fact one has to wonder whether it's true—but I suppose if computers then resembled pocket calculators, well, they would be of some use). But if the need for elaborate calculations is true, how come the measured blast from explosions was supposed to be far greater than estimated?
Unfortunately Jungk is also uncritical as regards the political material: as an example there's a whole section on Oppenheimer's fall, but although the type of building, sofa, characters of the interviewee/interrogators, weather, tone of voice, taste in poetry, etc etc are detailed, it's not made clear what he was charged with—let alone of course how serious the charges were. Jungk accepts all World War 2 mythology—on for example Pearl Harbor. He does not take the cost of the operation very seriously.
Sometimes he gets things right—his account of Groves is convincing, for example. So is his belief that the US Navy wanted to get in on the act—hence Bikini. His accounts of security and control of information sound right. The preponderance of 'foreigners' was acknowledged at the time—this may be a codeword for Jews, though Jungk barely mentions this.
An appendix is the 'Franck Report' to I think Stimson. This is full of comment on dangers of nuclear weapons, proliferation, treaties, control, and so on. Astonishingly, this was dated a few months before the first test, at night, in a remote country area, ten miles from observers, with full military secrecy! They had a lot to lose if their huge funding was found not to work.
**There is a very good account of Göttingen University in its great days, mostly of course taken from other sources. Read it and weep over modern times.
9 years later: I wrote that review in Sept 2012, about 6 months after Jesse Waugh let the Nuke Lies forum disappear, without giving any notice. Probably Jungk was just another Jew scribbler, though of course he may have been hired as a systematic Jew publicist. He wrote some other books, which I remember as lachrymose and useless, in the fake futurology mode, probably intended to help Jews in their takeover schemes. I listed some: Die Zukunft hat schoen begonnen seems to be 1954. Brighter than a Thousand Suns was 1958, from the original 1956 German. 1979 was The Nuclear State, from the 1978 German. This may be the same 1979 book as The New Tyranny: How Nuclear Power Enslaves Us, perhaps the US edition.
There were of course references to Jungk in nukelies.org:
1945-groves-sachs-spaatz-oppenheimer-slotin.html which looks at the problem the mythmakers had with their 'new weapon'. Including adding layers of detail to make it 'unthinkable' and to put off experimenters. Robert Jungk is referred to, in stories of people nearly or actually killed; someone called Slotin being an example, as he fiddled about allegedly with uranium, and someone called Dagnian another.
Some literary readers may like my one-act play, set in Los Alamos in 1945, with these distinguished gentlemen. I assumed Groves was a non-Jew hired thug type; but may be wrong, as the supposed US Army had a lot of Jews.
robert-jungk-brighter-thousand-suns.html is a longer version of the review above, including FirstClassSkeptic wondering if Sachs was related to Goldman-Sachs as of course he was.
tour-hiroshima-nagasaki-a-bomb-nuke-hoax-links.html is a very nice, detailed examination of nuclear frauds, one at a time, with about 24 bullet-pointed links. Jungk has one small link; he's described accurately as 'just another Jewish liar'.
Other mentions occur in
Bertrand Russell duped by Jewish physicists and much more on Russell
Einstein's letter to Roosevelt
Hiroshima Radiation Lies
Introduction to nuke revisionism, a new subject
Nico Haupt on wartime exchanges of atomic and radar men moving around the world. And TV, VLC the digital player
Richard Rhodes, hack author of supposed nuclear books when they were a Jewish genre
Sabrosky and Mossad claims 'Sabrosky' as a computer-generated image
South Africa nuclear bombs fraud
&cop; Rae West 30 November 2021