A Uranium bomb is possible

15th July 1941: Scientific evaluation says it will be hugely expensive but essential to pre-empt the Nazis

The MAUD committee recommendations led directly to the Manhattan Project and the first atomic explosion, the Trinity test at Los Alamos on 16th July 1945.

A direct consequence of Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies in the 1930s was that many German Jews emigrated to safer havens in Britain and America. Amongst them were some brilliant minds who were to have a…