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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Operation Epsilon was the codename of a program in which Allied forces near the end of World War II detained ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear weapon/power program. The scientists were captured between May 1 to June 30, 1945, and interned at Farm Hall, a bugged house in Godmanchester, England (near Cambridge), from July 3, 1945 to January 3, 1946. The goal was to determine how close the Germans had been to constructing an atomic bomb, by listening to their conversations. Some of the scientists had almost nothing to do with the nuclear project. Hahn, for example, had discovered nuclear fission in December 1938, but otherwise had no participation. Max von Laue was, like Hahn, an ardent anti-Nazi and had not done any work relating to wartime physics. In the transcripts, Hahn contemplates suicide after learning of the bombing of Hiroshima, believing himself personally responsible, while less than two weeks after the announcement Heisenberg had figured out the process by which the bomb was built.