As the Second World War drew to a close, attention quietly shifted from battlefield victories to the struggle over knowledge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wernher von Braun (second from right) was a Nazi physicist who later joined Nasa as a rocket scientist. (Pictured with members of ...

The rocket that took humans to the Moon didn’t start in America — it started in Nazi Germany. Saturn V was designed by a team ...

The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that it might be possible in 50 to 100 years. During the Second World War, as ...

On July 3, 1945, 10 German scientists who had worked on Germany’s nuclear program were interned by the Allies at a country mansion called Farm Hall, in Godmanchester, England, about 20 miles northwest ...

The war and the weapons -- Destruction -- The hunters and the hunted -- Liberation -- The captured and their interrogators -- Harnessing the chariot of destruction -- Hitler's doctors -- Black, white ...