We all know about Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, the nuclear research lab at Los Alamos and how the Americans made the atomic bombs which were dropped on Japan in August 1945. But do we?

 

This is the first book to tell the full story of the handful of scientists who set up the top-secret British atomic bomb programme codenamed 'Tube Alloys' in 1940 – two years before Manhattan began. Their names are mostly forgotten, but they changed the course of history. Without them, the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos would never have happened and no atomic bombs could have been made during the Second World War.

 

The Impossible Bomb is a gripping true-life scientific thriller which sheds new light on the birth of nuclear weapons – and reveals how and why Tube Alloys was written out of history.

 

Here's a trailer about The Impossible Bomb.