British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years [Paperback]

During World War II, Franklin D.Roosevelt and Winston Churchill pooled their nations' resources in the race to beat the Germans to the secret of the atomic bomb. This book tells the story of the British scientists who journeyed to Los Alamos to help develop the world's first nuclear weapons.The British mission at Los Alamos - the scientific dimension; the British mission at Los Alamos - the social dimension; the aftermath; varieties of the British mission experience; the strange tale of Klaus Fuchs; the British mission and the postwar nuclear culture. Appendices: the postwar careers of the British mission; the Frisch-Peierls memorandum (March 1940); Ralph Carlisle Smith's summary of the British mission at Los Alamos; Otto Frisch's eyewitness account of the July 16, 1945, atomic explosion at trinity site, Alamogordo air base, New Mexico.