Before the Fall-Out: From Marie Curia to Hiroshima  32105

The human chain reaction that led to the atom bomb

  • Prologue
  1. ‘Brilliant in the Darkness’
  2. ‘A Rabbit from the Antipodes’
  3. Forces of Nature
  4. ‘Make Physics Boom’
  5. Days of Alchemy
  6. Persecution and Purge
  7. ‘Wonderful Findings’
  8. ‘We May Sleep Comfortably in Our Beds’
  9. A Cold Room in Birmingham
  10. Maud Ray Kent
  11. ‘Hitler’s Success Could Depend on It’
  12. ‘He Said “Bomb” in No Uncertain Terms’
  13. ‘We’ll Wipe the Japs Out of the Maps’
  14. ‘V.B. OK’
  15. ‘The Best Coup’
  16. Beautiful and Savage Country
  17. ‘Mr Baker’
  18. Heavy Water
  19. Boon or Disaster?
  20. ‘This Thing is Going to be Very Big’
  21. ‘Germany Had No Atomic Bomb’
  22. ‘A Profound Psychological Impression’
  23. ‘An Elongated Trash Can with Fins’
  24. ‘It’s Hiroshima’
  25. ‘Mother Will Not Die’
  26. ‘A New Fact in the World’s Power Politics’
  • Epilogue
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