Title Churchill's bomb : how the United States overtook Britain in the first nuclear arms race / Graham Farmelo.

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Description	554 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-532) and index.
Contents	Towards the nuclear age -- World War II -- Churchill as leader of the opposition -- Churchill's second premiership.
Summary	Describes how the science behind Britain's nuclear arms advances at the beginning of World War II was given to America because Winston Churchill didn't fully believe in the physicists' research or the implications of such powerful weaponry.
Subject	Great Britain -- Military policy -- 20th century.
	Great Britain.
	Military policy.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.
	Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
	Command of troops.
	Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957.
	Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- Great Britain.
	Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History.
	Nuclear weapons -- Government policy.
	History.
	Nuclear weapons.
	Atomic bomb -- Great Britain -- History.
	Atomic bomb.
	Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
	United States.
	Great Britain -- Military relations -- United States.
	Military relations.
	United States -- Military relations -- Great Britain.
ISBN	9780465021956 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
	0465021956 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
	9780465069897 (e-book)
	0465069894 (e-book)