Test of Greatness:Britain's Struggle for the Atomic Bomb: Britain's Struggle for the Atom Bomb by Cathcart, Brian

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

John Murray Pubs Ltd, 1995-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London: John Murray, 1994. This is from the dustwrapper: " In the shocked aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Clement Attlee realized at once that the nature of security and strength in the world had changed irrevocably. He ordered a superhuman effort to make Britain a nuclear power. Although Britain had been a junior partner in the Manhattan Project which had produced the American bombs, no British scientist had more than partial knowledge of the complex physics involved. The war over, the Americans cut off all help. At a time of daunting economic difficulty and amid the growing tension of the Cold War, the project hurriedly took shape behind a cloak of almost paranoid secrecy and in an atmosphere of constant stringency and shortage. Brian Cathcart's book ranges over politics, diplomacy, espionage and science, but above all it tells the story of the brilliant young scientist William Penney, his team and their struggle. For the first time the men who worked behind the security fences at… Read More