Titlebook: Independence and Deterrence; Volume 2: Policy Exe Margaret Gowing Book 1974 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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The Weapon British representative at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Penney did not know of the ministerial meeting in January 1947 which decided to make a bomb; twenty-two years later he believed that the decision was not actually made until May, and only then was he told to do something about it.

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The Menvel, as matters of supreme importance for the British nation. A subsidiary aim was the exploration of the potentialities of nuclear power: the shortage of fuel which bedevilled the whole economy emphasised the importance of this aim which could not, however, be achieved quickly.

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Nuclear Power: Feasibility Studiescity there, they had looked forward to organising and supervising the design and construction of the first power reactor themselves, in association with industry. It was only at the end of the period of this book that responsibility for the design and construction of large power reactors moved, by explicit decision, to Risley.

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Radioisotopeseriod there was a happy exception — an enterprise which was peaceful, beneficial, humanitarian and almost untouched by the prevailing secrecy and international rivalry. This was the radioisotope programme which, though modest in scale,* was most rewarding.

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Resourcesthere was little chance in wartime of finding the necessary resources. However, when the Government decided immediately after the war that Britain should produce fissile material as soon as possible, demands on the country’s resources still greatly exceeded the supply. Britain had, in winning the wa

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Health and Safetyt face to face with the hazards of such an undertaking.... Because of the dangers, some of the scientists doubted whether the programme could or should be prosecuted.’ In Britain practically no one seems to have doubted whether the British post-war project should be undertaken, despite General Grove

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Securityd United States projects, and other walls with them and the Canadian project on one side and the embryo European and Commonwealth projects on the other. Within Britain, secrecy removed the project from the normal structure of Government. It was virtually never considered by the whole Cabinet; decisi