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The Impossible Bomb : The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Gareth.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (488 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement--but scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Also by Gareth Williams
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates, Figures and Maps
- Timeline, 1939-45
- Who's Who
- Preface: By Way of Explanation
- Maps
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 War Games
- 3 Pure Physics
- 4 Years of Wonder
- 5 Beyond Nature?
- 6 To the Brink
- 7 Warm-Up
- 8 Liaisons Dangereuses
- 9 Memorandum of Understanding
- 10 Separation Anxieties
- 11 Men with Missions
- 12 In the Dark
- 13 Minority Reports
- 14 Tube Alloys
- 15 Über Alles
- 16 Double Dealing
- 17 Critical Masses
- 18 Breakdown and Repair
- Plates
- 19 Over There
- 20 Missionaries
- 21 Liberation
- 22 The Giving of All Help
- 23 Countdown
- 24 On the Run
- 25 Proof of Concept
- 26 Instrument of War
- 27 Aftermaths
- 28 Winners and Losers
- 29 Whodunnit
- 30 Follow-Up
- Postscript: Full Circle
- Appendix I Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
- Appendix II Members of the British Mission to the Manhattan Project
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-28652-X
- 9780300286526
- OCLC:
- 1570339848
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