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Racing Against Timegen bomb. There was no such danger then; Britain’s first atomic test, of a rather primitive fission device, was still over two years distant. But even before the Cabinet’s secret H-bomb decision of June 1954 launched a serious research programme, events were already in train that gravely threatened its completion.

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The Great Prizet the only, factor that enabled Harold Macmillan in 1958 to seize what he called ‘the great prize’ that three Prime Ministers before him had striven for. The background to the events of 1958 is outlined in the first part of this chapter.