About the Author:
GRAHAM FARMELO is a former senior executive at the Science Museum, London. He is currently a by-fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and an adjunct professor of physics at Northeastern University in Boston. Winner of the 2009 Costa Book Award for Biography and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology for The Strangest Man:The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius, he lives in London, England.
Review:
''A well-written and deeply researched account of Britain's engagement in atomic research . . . Farmelo's study provides an excellent assessment of Churchill's role in the British effort and complements Richard Rhodes's classic The Making of the Atomic Bomb. A fine addition to the existing literature on the subject.'' --Library Journal
''Farmelo constructs a nicely detailed and balanced record of the British ambivalence toward building an atom bomb in favor of the American effort . . . A tremendously useful soup-to-nuts study of how Britain and the US embraced a frightening atomic age.'' --Kirkus Reviews
''Graham Farmelo offers a fresh and thoroughly researched history of the development of atomic weapons in his insightful and engaging account of Winston Churchill's failure to forge a partnership of equal exchange between Great Britain and the United States in the development of the bomb.'' --Mary Jo Nye, professor of history emerita, Oregon State University
''An excellent book. Graham Farmelo draws on many sources to show how Churchill, his scientific adviser Frederick Lindemann, and a host of other scientists and politicians developed the atomic bomb . . . But Farmelo's book does more than unfold the hopes, doubts, and fears engendered by the bomb: it illuminates the relationship between big science and modern democracy.'' --James W. Muller, University of Alaska, Anchorage
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