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Elemental Germans

Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59

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  1. Christoph Laucht

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 1-11

  3. Difficult Beginnings: Social Integration between Survival and Internment

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 12-30

  4. Almost Accidental Beginnings: Professional Integration between Marginalization and British-American Nuclear Cooperation

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 31-55

  5. American Interlude: The Manhattan Project, the Atom Bomb and the Emergence of a New Approach to Nuclear Research

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 56-81

  6. A Nation Betrayed? The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case Reconsidered

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 82-109

  7. Subject to Suspicion: Rudolf Peierls and the Klaus Fuchs Espionage Case

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 110-124

  8. The Responsible Scientist: Rudolf Peierls and the Formation of the Atomic Scientists’ Association

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 125-150

  9. The ‘Unpolitical’ Scientist: Rudolf Peierls, the Concept of ‘Objective’ Science and the End of the Atomic Scientists’ Association

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 151-171

  10. Conclusions and Afterthoughts

    • Christoph Laucht
    Pages 172-177

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 178-274
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About this book

Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.

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'...this book is a valuable addition to the field of physics history and should interest British Cold War and science historians alike, particularly those investigating the history of nuclear weapons or the development of European scientific cooperation in the post-war period.'

- Martin Theaker, University of Cambridge

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Christoph Laucht

About the author

CHRISTOPH LAUCHT Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Leeds, UK. His research interests include the cultural history of the atomic age and the transnational history of the Cold War. He is co-editor of Divided, But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010).

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