Wales and the Bomb
The Role of Welsh Scientists and Engineers in the UK Nuclear Programme
Distributed for University of Wales Press
160 pages
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6 illustrations
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2018
Review Quotes
Sir Lawrence Freedman, FBA, King’s College London
“John Baylis has already written extensively on the British nuclear programme. Now, in introducing us to the disproportionate number of Welsh scientists and engineers involved in the early Bomb programme, he adds to the story a welcome and revealing human dimension.”
Robin Williams, CBE, FRS, FLSW, Swansea University
“Nuclear weapons pose difficult moral problems. They also involve complex scientific challenges. In this interesting study, John Baylis focuses on the role of scientists and engineers, mostly born and brought up in Wales, in the development of the British nuclear weapons programme over the past seventy years. It is a fascinating and surprising story.”
Len Scott, FLSW, Aberystwyth University
“A foremost international authority on the history of nuclear weapons, John Baylis has produced an illuminating study of the role of Welsh scientists and engineers in the development of Britain’s atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Wales and the Bomb will prove of fascination for students of British nuclear history and for anyone interested in the cultural history of technology in Wales and Britain since the Second World War.”
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