It was labelled "ruin from the air" -- the atomic devastation of Hiroshima brought about by the explosion of a nuclear device - the Atom Bomb,
It ended a war in 1945.
But it triggered a super state nuclear standoff that lasts today.
How did the soldiers and the scientists of the 1940s arrive at the science that brought the nuclear ruin from the air?
America's Manhattan Project was the endpoint of the research conveyor belt.
The development of an atomic weapon and its delivery over a Japanese city has been documented and debated in extremis.
It had as its geminal point the splitting of the atom by English scientists.
The American scientists then pursued the ultimate possibility of nuclear fission.
But what if the Germans had got there first?
We are now offered an alternative account of the initial race for the atom bomb -- between Germany and the Allies.
In the opening chapters of Nucleus an absorbing scenario is drawn that suggests a possible answer to : what if?
But surely something even deeper lurks from the creative skills of Rory Clements.
It ended a war in 1945.
But it triggered a super state nuclear standoff that lasts today.
How did the soldiers and the scientists of the 1940s arrive at the science that brought the nuclear ruin from the air?
America's Manhattan Project was the endpoint of the research conveyor belt.
The development of an atomic weapon and its delivery over a Japanese city has been documented and debated in extremis.
It had as its geminal point the splitting of the atom by English scientists.
The American scientists then pursued the ultimate possibility of nuclear fission.
But what if the Germans had got there first?
We are now offered an alternative account of the initial race for the atom bomb -- between Germany and the Allies.
In the opening chapters of Nucleus an absorbing scenario is drawn that suggests a possible answer to : what if?
But surely something even deeper lurks from the creative skills of Rory Clements.