Churchill's Bomb

A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

Graham Farmelo

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English

Faber & Faber
01 December 2014

History; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Nuclear weapons

Churchill's Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons.

Churchill was far more interested in science that he appeared. He made brave efforts to understand the exciting and sinister new world opened up by quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, and wrote repeatedly about the coming of unimaginably dangerous new explosives. Britain then was the world leader in nuclear research. But when the awful possibility of actually building an atomic bomb raised its head, Churchill made crucial errors that ensured Britain's exclusion from the American-led project to build the bomb.

In this original and controversial book, award-winning biographer Graham Farmelo shows a new and less flattering side to the great war leader.

By: Graham Farmelo
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 465g
ISBN: 9780571249794
ISBN 10: 0571249795
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 December 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://grahamfarmelo.com/

Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Prize and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize.