Overview

This book, written with unique access to official archives, tells the secret story of Britain's H-bomb - the scientific and strategic background, the government's policy decision, the work of the remarkable men who created the bomb, the four weapon trials at a remote Pacific atoll in 1957-58, and the historic consequences.

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9780312235185

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. ..a work of record...written with zest, narrative drive and a manifest affection for those men behind the Aldermaston wire. -- Financial Times <br><br>. ..an excellent book that sheds needed light on the world's third thermonuclear power. -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists <br><br> Clearly written and persuasively argued, it makes a major contribution to a vital subject. -- Choice <br>

. ..a work of record...written with zest, narrative drive and a manifest affection for those men behind the Aldermaston wire. -- Financial Times . ..an excellent book that sheds needed light on the world's third thermonuclear power. -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Clearly written and persuasively argued, it makes a major contribution to a vital subject. -- Choice

.,. a work of record...written with zest, narrative drive and a manifest affection for those men behind the Aldermaston wire. -- Financial Times <br>.,. an excellent book that sheds needed light on the world's third thermonuclear power. -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists <br> Clearly written and persuasively argued, it makes a major contribution to a vital subject. -- Choice <br>

Author Information

LORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History. She is author of A Very Special Relationship: British Weapon Trials in Australia (1987) and Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident.

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