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

Farmelo, Graham (Author)

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Publication date: 2013
Language: English

ISBN: 9780465021956

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

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Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons Technology and government Arms race Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics 20th century, early Great Britain United States Churchill, Winston

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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