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Churchill´s Bomb: A hidden history of Britain´s first nuclear weapons programme
Graham Farmelo
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Description for Churchill´s Bomb: A hidden history of Britain´s first nuclear weapons programme
Paperback. Reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historian. This title features his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. It deals with political and scientific personalities and intrigues, which reveals a little-known side of Britain's great war-leader. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBW; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 145 x 37. Weight in Grams: 466.
Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill'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 the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race.
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Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571249794
SKU
V9780571249794
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Graham Farmelo
Graham Farmelo is a By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the bestselling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. To find ... Read more
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