A brief assessment of the role of Fort Halstead in Britain’s early rocket programmes and the atomic bomb project
A report by Wayne Cocroft, copyright English Heritage, 2010. This report can be viewed and downloaded from the originators website here.
Test Of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atom Bomb
In the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Clement Attlee realized at once that the nature of security and strength in the world had changed irrevocably. He ordered a superhuman effort to make Britain a nuclear power. He ordered a superhuman effort to make Britain a nuclear power. Although Britain had been a junior partner in