British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years

by Ferenc Morton Szasz

Book Overview

During World War 2, President Franklin D.Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill pooled their nations' resources in the desperate 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, New Mexico, to help develop the world's first nuclear weapons. The contributions of the British Mission to Los Alamos, which have been largely overlooked, were vital to the completion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312061676
• ISBN13: 9780312061678
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"