NUCLEAR RIVALS: ANGLO AMERICAN ATOMIC RELATIONS
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814208525 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 266 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Brilliant and entertaining The history of atomic development is usually discussed in terms of the Manhatten Project and the decision to drop. Here, Paul describes that there was so much more to the stop - after Heroshima. And it wasn't just concerning the US and USSR. Much of the drama took place between America and her closest ally - the United Kingdom. Paul's prose brings the history of these events to life.
Capitalizing on the availability of physicists and chemists who had fled Hitler's Germany, U.S. On October 3, 1952, the British finally detonated their own atomic bomb.. became less willing to abide by the terms of wartime agreements pledging to continue postwar collaboration. and British scientists were able to repeat within a few weeks the test of nuclear fission first performed by two German chemists and strive toward cooperative development of the bomb during Word War II. But the death of Roosevelt and Truman's succession in 1945, coupled with Churchill's loss of the prime ministership to Clement Attlee, marked a definite change in Anglo-American atomic policy.After detonating the bomb, the U.S. He also shows how American unwillingness to collaborate forced the Br