The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon

The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb

Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement—but scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development. Including Nobel Prize winners and Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, these scientists have long since been forgotten. But without their expertise, Robert Oppenheimer’s research at Los Alamos would never have succeeded.

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