Monographs (and dissertation)
German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989) [Die Uranmaschine. Mythos und Wirklichkeit der deutschen Atombombe (Berlin, Siedler Verlag, 1990)]
Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atom Bomb (New York, Perseus Publishing, 1995)
Articles
“National Socialism and German Physics,” Journal of Contemporary History, 24 (1989), 63-89.
“Legenden um die deutsche Atombombe,” Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 38 (1990), 45-74.
“Physics and Propaganda: Werner Heisenberg’s Foreign Lectures under National Socialism,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 22 (1992), 339-89.
“Myths of the German Atomic Bomb,” Nature, 359 (1992), 473-474.
“Selbstreflexionen deutscher Atomphysiker. Die Farm Hall-Protokolle und die Entstehung neuer Legenden um die ‘deutsche Atombombe,’” Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 41 (1993), 519-42.
“A Nobel Tale of Wartime Injustice,” Nature, 382 (1996), 393-95 [together with Elisabeth Crawford and Ruth Lewin Sime].
“A Nobel Tale of Postwar Injustice,” Physics Today, 50, No. 9 (September 1997), 26-32 [together with Elisabeth Crawford and Ruth Lewin Sime].
“Otto Hahn: Responsibility and Repression,” Physics in Perspective, 8/2 (2006), 116-163.
“New light on science, medicine, and engineering under Hitler,” Metascience, 19/3 (2010), 421-431.
“The ‘National’ in International, and Transnational Science,” in The British Journal for the History of Science, 45/3 (2012), 359-376.
Edited volumes
Science, Technology, and National Socialism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993) [editor, together with Monika Renneberg]
Science and Ideology: A Comparative History (London: Routledge, 2003) [editor]
Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes [Volume 20 of Osiris] (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2005) [Edited, together with Carola Sachse]
Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung - Die DPG im Dritten Reich (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2007) [Edited, together with Dieter Hoffmann] [The German Physical Society in the Third Reich: Physicists between Autonomy and Accommodation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)]
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2009) [Edited together with Susanne Heim and Carola Sachse]
Physics and Politics: Research and Research Support in Twentieth Century Germany in Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010) [Edited together with Helmuth Trischler]
“Fremde” Wissenschaftler im Dritten Reich. Die Debye-Affäre im Kontext (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011) [Edited together with Dieter Hoffmann]
The German Research Foundation 1920-1970: Funding Poised between Science and Politics (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013) [Edited together with Karin Orth, Ulrich Herbert, and Rüdiger vom Bruch]