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Author Farmelo, Graham.

Title Churchill's bomb : how the United States overtook Britain in the first nuclear arms race/ Graham Farmelo.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2013]
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  355.825 FA    Check Shelf
Description 554 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Towards the nuclear age -- World War II -- Churchill as leader of the opposition -- Churchill's second premiership.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.
Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- Great Britain.
Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History.
Atomic bomb -- Great Britain -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- United States.
Great Britain -- Military relations -- United States.
United States -- Military relations -- Great Britain.
ISBN 0465021956
9780465021956
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