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ISBN10: 0465021956, ISBN13: 9780465021956, [publisher: Basic Books, United States] Softcover Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb , the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the Bomb's strategic implications. This was odd,he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920s and 1930s, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the Bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, choosing to rely mainly on the counsel of his friend Frederick Lindemann, an Oxford physicist with often wayward judgment. Churchill also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the Bomb, and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose ...

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Basic Books, Date: 2013. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches) Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and index. 576 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II. As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the Bomb's strategic implications. This was odd -- he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920s and 1930s, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the Bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, choosing to rely mainly on the counsel of his friend Frederick Lindemann, an Oxford physicist with often wayward judgment. Churchill also failed to ...

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New York: Basic Books, Date: 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 554 pages. Extensive Bibliography and Index. First American edition, first printing with full number line. A history Britain's early development of the bomb and Churchill's reluctance to pursue and fund the project, resulting in America being the first to successfully harness the power of the atom. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . 2013. Basic Books ISBN 0465021956 9780465021956 [US]

ISBN10: 0465021956, ISBN13: 9780465021956, [publisher: Basic Books, United Kingdom] Hardcover 8vo pp. 554, "Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning?
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