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05 February 2014

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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05 January 2014

‘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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09 December 2013

‘Beauty as method’ collection of Dirac papers published in Italy

The Italian physicist Vincenzo Barone has published La Bellezza Come Metodo, a handsome collection of papers by Paul Dirac on the great value of mathematical beauty as a lodestar to theoretical physicists.

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'Beauty as method'

Beauty as Method

 

Graham’s biography of Dirac is now available in an Italian translation: L’uomo più strano del mondo

08 December 2013

‘Churchill’s Bomb’ selected as a science book of the year

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’.

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