Hitler’s Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil’s Pact by John Cornwell

Raising questions as urgent today as they were through the twentieth century, Cornwell asks whether scientists are truly responsible for the consequences of their discoveries; whether bad regimes can produce good science. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, Cornwell’s account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary for all thinking people.