Elemental Germans

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

Christoph Laucht

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780230354876
• eBook ISBN: 9781137028334
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Difficult Beginnings: Social Integration between Survival and Internment
• 2 Almost Accidental Beginnings: Professional Integration between Marginalization and British–American Nuclear Cooperation
• 3 American Interlude: The Manhattan Project, the Atom Bomb and the Emergence of a New Approach to Nuclear Research
• 4 A Nation Betrayed? The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case Reconsidered
• 5 Subject to Suspicion: Rudolf Peierls and the Klaus Fuchs Espionage Case
• 6 The Responsible Scientist: Rudolf Peierls and the Formation of the Atomic Scientists’ Association
• 7 The ‘Unpolitical’ Scientist: Rudolf Peierls, the Concept of ‘Objective’ Science and the End of the Atomic Scientists’ Association
• Conclusions and Afterthoughts
• Notes and References
• Bibliography
• Index