Churchill’s Bomb
Was Churchill a Nuclear Visionary?In Churchill’s last great speech in the House of Commons, on 1 March 1955, he claimed he had ‘tried to follow and even predict’ applications of nuclear science. In Graham’s first blog for the Huffington Post, he asks whether Churchill really was a nuclear visionary
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Talk ‘Winston Churchill, his nuclear physicists, and the Bomb’ at the Kent Physics Centre: More information: University of Kent, Kent Physics Centre, Annual Lectures
Keswick, UKTalk at the Words by the Water literary festival. More Information
Oxford Literary Festival, UKGraham and Philip Ball explore the dilemmas facing scientists during Wars at Oxford Literary Festival on 26 March at 4.00pm. More information: Science and War: Working for Churchill and Hitler
Oxford University, UKTalk ‘Churchill, Oxford physicists and the Bomb’ More Information
Cheltenham Science FestivalTalk ‘Science and War: working for Churchill and Hitler’ (with Philip Ball) Details to come here: Cheltenham Science Festival
‘Churchill’s Bomb’ reviewed in ‘Foreign Affairs’The journal Foreign Affairs has selected Churchill’s Bomb as its Book of the Day, having invited Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman to review it. Freedman describes the book as ‘terrific’:
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The Observer’s science editor Robin McKie has selected Graham’s new book as one of his science books of the year, commenting that it offers ‘intriguing insights into the pursuit of science then and now’.
Graham’s biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, was Physics World’s Book of the Year in 2009. Now Churchill’s Bomb has been short-listed for the same honour.
Graham’s new book, now available in Canada has been warmly reviewed in Maclean’s Magazine
