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Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
By Farmelo, Graham
- ISBN
- 9780465021956
- Publisher
- Basic: Perseus
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Reviewed on September 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Winston Churchill was fascinated by the prospect of nuclear weapons as far back as World War I, when he read H.G. Wells's The World Set Free. As prime minister during World War II, he supported British scientists in the development of the bomb. Farmelo (senior research fellow, Science Museum, London; physics, Northeastern Univ.; The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom) presents a well-written and deeply rese...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
