Book ID: CBB001213734

Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race (2013)

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Farmelo, Graham (Author)


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Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 554 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Describes how the science behind Britain's nuclear arms advances at the beginning of World War II was given to America because Winston Churchill didn't fully believe in the physicists' research or the implications of such powerful weaponry.

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Essay Review Martin Underwood (2015) Graham Farmelo: Churchill’s Bomb: A History of Science, War and Politics. Science and Education (pp. 343-348). unapi

Review Moore, Richard (2014) Review of "Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 415). unapi

Review Cassidy, David C. (2014) Review of "Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race". Physics in Perspective (pp. 277-280). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Schweber, Silvan Sam
Gordin, Michael D.
Christoph Becker-Schaum
Lehman, Michael R.
Holloway, Joshua T.
Kevin Ruane
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Arms race
Cold War
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Germany
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
England
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Marconi Company
University of California, Berkeley
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
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