Farmelo G. Churchill's Bomb - A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics

NY: Basic Books, 2013. - 542 p.Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.