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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.

Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill''s association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term ''atomic bombs''. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on

Churchills Bomb A hidden history of Britains

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 6 November 2014
      ISBN-13 9780571249794
      978-0571249794
      ISBN-10 0571249795

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill''s association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term ''atomic bombs''. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on

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