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Churchill's Bomb

How The United States Overtook Britain In The First Nuclear Arms Race

by Graham Farmelo

ScienceAtomic bombPrime ministersWorld War, 1939-1945BiographyCherwell, frederick alexander lindemann, viscount, 1886-1957Prime ministers, great britainWorld war, 1939-1945, science

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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Book data: Open Library