Nuclear Rivals
Subtitle: Anglo-American Atomic Relations, 1941-1952
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780814208526
Subjects: Military Policy; Technology; History - Military / War; Science/Mathematics; Military - Nuclear Warfare; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Military Science; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Great Britain; Military relations; Nuclear Weapons; United States
Description: "Relying on recently declassified government records relating to postwar atomic research, Septimus H. Paul analyzes how the governments of the United States and Great Britain between 1939 and 1945 collaborated on developing the atomic bomb.

Capitalizing on the availability of physicists and chemists who had fled Hitler's Germany, U.S. and British scientists were able to repeat within a few weeks the test of nuclear fission first performed by two German chemists and strive toward cooperative development of the bomb during World War II. But the death of Roosevelt and Truman's succession in 1945, coupled with Churchill's loss of the prime ministership to Clement Attlee, marked a definite change in Anglo-American atomic policy.".

"After detonating the bomb, the United States became less willing to abide by the terms of wartime agreements pledging to continue postwar collaboration. Paul examines the postwar controversy surrounding noncollaboration and its effects on the British-American special relationship. He also shows how American unwillingness to collaborate forced the British to pursue an independent atomic program. On October 3, 1952, the British finally detonated their own atomic bomb."--BOOK JACKET.