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Philosophy, sociology and religion

Philosophy, sociology and religion

Politics or physics?

14 Nov 2013
Taken from the November 2013 issue of Physics World

Gerard DeGroot reviews:

Churchill’s Bomb: a Hidden History of Science, War and Politics
Graham Farmelo
2013 Faber & Faber/Basic Books £25.00/$29.99hb 576pp

Photo of Einstein and Churchill in Churchill's garden at Chartwell
Matters of war: Graham Farmelo argues in his new book that Winston Churchill (pictured with a visiting Albert Einstein in 1939) made a series of mistakes when it came to the atomic bomb. (Courtesy: Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images)
In late May 1944 Niels Bohr met Winston Churchill to discuss the atom bomb. Certain that the new wea

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Gerard DeGroot is a historian at the University of St Andrews, UK, and author of The Bomb: a Life (2004 Harvard University Press)
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