CHURCHILL’S BOMB: A HIDDEN HISTORY OF SCIENCE, WAR AND POLITICS
Book ID/图书代码： 04560013B62515
English Summary/英文概要： Churchill’s Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister’s life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain’s policy on atomic weapons.
Graham Farmelo, the author of the celebrated and prize-winning biography of Paul Dirac, argues that Churchill was far more interested in science that he appeared. He made brave efforts to understand the exciting and sinister new world opened up by quantum physics in the 1920s and 30s, and wrote repeatedly about the coming of unimaginably dangerous new explosives. Britain then was the world leader in nuclear research.
But when the awful possibility of actually building an atomic bomb raised its head, Churchill made crucial errors that ensured Britain’s exclusion from the American-led project to build the bomb. He neglected an offer by Roosevelt to give Britain equal footing on the project and marginalized the real elite of British science, relying instead on the counsel of Frederick Lindemann, a wayward Oxford physicist hungry for power and resentful of scientists more brilliant than he was. As a result, Britain lost its leadership of this cutting-edge science and was denied access to the latest research. Churchill allowed himself to be fobbed off with emollient words from the notoriously evasive American President.
In this original and controversial book, Graham Farmelo shows a new and less flattering side to the great war leader.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《丘吉尔的原子弹》是一部颇具独创性并富有争议的著作，充分刻画了大时代中科学家和政治家的人格特性，揭示了历史长河中鲜为人知的一面。
此书为我们展示了丘吉尔漫长政治生涯中的一个全新形象。丘吉尔在世界主要政治家中最先预见到核时代的到来，并一度领导“二战”期间的原子弹制造工作。但战后美国否认丘吉尔与罗斯福之间达成的个人协议，拒绝分享核研究成果。于是英国继续展开研究，并在丘吉尔的首相任内首次试爆原子弹成功。离任后，丘吉尔也曾为阻止“冷战”的核军备竞赛做出不懈的努力。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：“这是一本不可多得的好书…Farmelo是一位造诣很深的文字大师，他刻画了一位在研制原子弹过程中的关键人物…不仅权威可信，而且可读性非常强。”（引述《星期日泰晤士报》的编辑Max Hastings）
"An excellent book ... Farmelo is a splendid word-portraitist, and his book charts the odysseys, geographical as well as scientific, of the men who played a key role in developing the bomb ... authoritative and superbly readable. "(Max Hastings Sunday Times)
About the Author/作者介绍： 格雷厄姆·法米罗（Graham Farmelo），英国著名科学作家和传记作家，以物理学为主要领域。曾任剑桥大学丘吉尔学院客座研究员，美国西北大学兼职物理教授，并多次前往普林斯顿高等研究院访问。编著有畅销书《天地有大美：现代科学之伟大方程》（2002），著有《量子怪杰：保罗·狄拉克传》（2011），该书获得2009年科斯塔传记奖以及2010年《洛杉矶时报》科学图书奖，以上两部作品均已出中文版，在国内颇受好评。
Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Prize and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize.
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