War - Ww2 - Heisenberg And The Bomb Poem by Paul Warren

War - WW2 - Heisenberg and the bomb

Heisenberg was a German scientist in the Nazi frame
Who was the leading atomic scientist for Hitler's fame
And at the conclusion of the Second World War
He was captured and interviewed for his knowledge chore
When told of the Hiroshima Bomb attack by the Americans
He disbelieved that they had cracked the atomic plan

As the calculations he had made was faulty in his assumption
That they would need 13000 kilograms for the atomic bomb to function
In truth the Allies found that it would only take one kilogram of uranium metal
Produced in about one year of work in their laboratories in good fettle
It seems Heisenberg calculated that each neutron fired had to split an atom
But to deliver an explosion of 20,000 tons TNT that did not need to happen

With some of the neutrons not splitting them in the Allies atomic plan
Making it has been said the German scientist's plan was not grand
And they had purposely made mistakes in their calculations grade
So that Hitler would not win the war and he would from the world fade
The scientists had a moral compass and did not want to break out bad
But would you purposely do such a thing and make your country defeat so sad.

© Paul Warren Poetry