Gareth Williams: The Impossible Bomb

Cover: 9780300284881 | The Impossible Bomb | Gareth Williams | Buch | Englisch | 2025

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The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development. Including Nobel Prize winners and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, these scientists have long since been forgotten. But without their expertise, Robert Oppenheimer's research at Los Alamos would never have succeeded. Gareth Williams unearths the true story of the top-secret British atomic programme, codenamed "Tube Alloys," established in 1940. These pioneering scientists struggled to convince sceptics in Britain and the USA that an atomic "super-bomb" capable of destroying entire cities was feasible, and could be built in time to influence the outcome of the Second World War. Williams shows how the British atomic programme, despite the often disruptive involvement of political leaders such as Winston Churchill, was vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. The Impossible Bomb sheds new light on how humanity's deadliest weapons came to exist-and the massive destruction they wrought.

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Gareth Williams

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780300284881
ISBN-10:	0300284888
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Williams, Gareth
Hersteller:	Yale University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	237 x 162 x 43 mm
Von/Mit:	Gareth Williams
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.07.2025
Gewicht:	0,748 kg