Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
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- Synopsis
- Perhaps no scientific breakthrough has shaped the course of human history as much as the harnessing of the atom. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out entirely differently had this powerful technology stayed under the control of Great Britain, whose scientists spearheaded the AlliesOCO nuclear arms program at the outset of World War II. As award-winning science historian Graham Farmelo reveals in "ChurchillOCOs Bomb," BritainOCOs supposedly visionary leader remained unconvinced of the potentially earth-shattering implications of his physicistsOCO research. Churchill ultimately shared BritainOCOs nuclear secrets with?and ceded its initiative to?America, whose successful development and deployment of an atomic bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the Nuclear Age. A groundbreaking investigation of the twentieth centuryOCOs most important scientific discovery, "ChurchillOCOs Bomb" reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics. "
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 576 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465069897
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780465021956
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Graham Farmelo
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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