Churchill's bomb : a hidden history of science, war and politics
Farmelo, Graham2013
Book
'Churchill's Bomb' reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Graham Farmelo, the author of the celebrated and prize-winning biography of Paul Dirac, argues that Churchill was far more interested in science that he appeared. He made brave efforts to understand the exciting and sinister new world opened up by quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, and wrote repeatedly about the coming of unimaginably dangerous new explosives.
Main title:
Churchill's bomb : a hidden history of science, war and politics / Graham Farmelo.
Author:
Farmelo, Graham, author
Imprint:
London : Faber and Faber, 2013.London : Faber and Faber, 2013.
Collation:
x, 554 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780571249787 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.084092941.084092 FAR941.084
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1193991