Farmelo, Graham (Author)
Basic Books
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
Physical Details: 554 pp.; bibl.; index
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.
...MoreEssay Review Martin Underwood (2015) Graham Farmelo: Churchill’s Bomb: A History of Science, War and Politics. Science and Education (pp. 343-348).
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).
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).
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