The berlin project by gregory benford5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() But he uses the story of Karl to tell both the story of the Manhattan Project as well as a commentary on what it was like as America got involved in World War II. Cohen was a chemist involved with the engineering problem of finding the best way of separating out uranium isotopes (U-235 from U-238) so that you could achieve enough of the former to have a fissionable amount. The main protagonist is Benford’s actual father-in-law, Karl Cohen. He starts with a novel that-for about the first half of the book-is just a historical novel about the Manhattan Project and not really a science fiction novel at all. ![]() Gregory Benford, in his new novel THE BERLIN PROJECT, has been writing science fiction novels for almost fifty years and has done something really different this time. ![]()
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