Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

The definitive story of how Winston Churchill’s leadership allowed the United States to overtake Great Britain in the nuclear arms race.

“A story as gripping as it is elegantly argued and precise.” —Financial Times

Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at t...