Perhaps no scientific breakthrough has shaped the course of human history as much harnessing the atom. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had this powerful technology stayed under the control of Great Britain. Author Graham Farmelo reveals Britain's supposedly visionary leader remained unconvinced of the potentially earth-shattering implications of his physicists' research. Churchill ultimately shared Britain's nuclear secrets withand ceded its initiative toAmerica, whose successful development and ...
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Perhaps no scientific breakthrough has shaped the course of human history as much harnessing the atom. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had this powerful technology stayed under the control of Great Britain. Author Graham Farmelo reveals Britain's supposedly visionary leader remained unconvinced of the potentially earth-shattering implications of his physicists' research. Churchill ultimately shared Britain's nuclear secrets withand ceded its initiative toAmerica, whose successful development and deployment of an atomic bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age.
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