{"product_id":"fallout-by-peter-watson","title":"Fallout By Peter Watson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\" data-csa-c-id=\"hdrk1k-5fgoja-664bk9-pd0rlp\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is brand new\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween December 1943 and August 1944, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFranklin Delano Roosevelt\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinston Churchill\u003c\/span\u003e ignited the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCold War\u003c\/span\u003e, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eatomic bomb\u003c\/span\u003e and excluding their Russian allies. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePeter Watson\u003c\/span\u003e tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomic physicists tried to counter this in two very different ways. While \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNiels Bohr\u003c\/span\u003e sought to convince President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to share their nuclear knowledge with \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJoseph Stalin\u003c\/span\u003e, nuclear scientist \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKlaus Fuchs\u003c\/span\u003e, a German Communist emigre to Britain, was leaking atomic secrets to the Soviets in a rival attempt to ensure parity between the superpowers. Neither succeeded in preventing the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWorld War II\u003c\/span\u003e allies from unleashing the atom bomb on the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFallout \u003c\/span\u003eproves that the atomic bomb was not needed, and was made as a result of a series of flawed decisions. The Americans did not tell the UK that the atomic research was compromised by Soviet spies; the British did not tell the Americans that in 1943 they knew for sure that Germany did not have a nuclear bomb program. Neither country admitted to the scientists developing the bomb that it would never be used to counter the (non-existent) \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGerman nuclear threat\u003c\/span\u003e. Had the scientists known, many of them would have refused to complete work on the bomb.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis story shows how politicians fatally failed to understand the nature of atomic science and, in so doing, exposed the world needlessly to great danger, a danger that is still very much with us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eback price at time of listing: £5.01\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Shop from Crisis Online","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55767085482367,"sku":"A01444","price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/4714\/5406\/files\/41u3DE6NeZL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1753711959","url":"https:\/\/shopfromcrisis.org.uk\/products\/fallout-by-peter-watson","provider":"Shop from Crisis Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}