
Compelling true story of the atomic age and how Britain's headlong dash to join the arms race caused a radiological disaster on Christmas Island resulting in the exposure of thousands of servicemen to fallout. The book shows, with the aid of declassified documents, how military...

The amazing true story of the UK's quest for The Bomb. It tells how Britain's top scientist, driven mad by grief, eventually built a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb that "went rogue" and exposed thousands of servicemen to a deadly deluge of radioactive fallout. It tells of the agonising...