Lieutenant General Sir “Robin” Ross, who has died aged 85, was a dynamic and unconventional leader whose career spanned nearly four decades and culminated in his appointment as Commandant ...

In this myth-busting book, Gareth Williams reveals that, without the involvement of British physicists, the all-American 'Manhattan Project' would never have got off the ground.

The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon, by Gareth Williams, is published by Yale University Press.