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"Crucial? Helpful? Practically Nil?" Reality and Perception of Britain's Contribution to the Development of Nuclear Weapons during the Second World War.
- Source :
- Diplomacy & Statecraft; Mar2022, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p19-40, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- When, in March 1940, two Jewish emigré physicists, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, composed a memorandum on the technical feasibility of an atomic weapon, few would have envisaged the significance of this six-page document. The technical blueprint for an atomic weapon, at the time assumed to be well beyond the realm of the possible, was to have a significant impact on the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, as it enabled British and American scientists to discuss at eye-level, the direction of nuclear weapons development, as it moved from theory to implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WORLD War II
NUCLEAR weapons
NUCLEAR terrorism
PHYSICISTS
BRITISH Americans
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09592296
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Diplomacy & Statecraft
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155633782
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2041805