The race for the atomic bomb
Ridley, Norman (Writer on the Battle of Britain)2023
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On 19th December 1938, Otto Hahn, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, conducted an experiment the results of which baffled him. It took his émigré collaborator Lise Meitner to explain that he had split an atom of uranium, which at the time seemed to defy all known laws of physics. When Neils Bohr took this news to the United States it became clear to scientists there that these results opened a completely new and, for some, horrifying possibility of energy production that could be used for both peaceful and military purposes. Scientists in Germany, France, Britain and the US began to delve deeper into the implications. But it was the British government that was the first to explicitly describe how the splitting of the atom might be utilised to create a practical weapon of fearsome power.
Main title:
The race for the atomic bomb / Norman Ridley.
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Imprint:
Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399040327 (hbk)
Dewey class:
539.709045539.709
Language:
English
Related title:
The race for the atomic bomb : scientists, spies and saboteurs - the Allies' and Hitler's battle for the ultimate weapon
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BRN:
3451732