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| | Books | Clouds and ashes |
 | | In fact, Clare George's sepia-tinted account of the characters and issues surrounding prewar nuclear physics and the development of the bomb has a double relevance: the current international situation and also the recent deathbed confession of one of its real-life protagonists, Alan Nunn May, imprisoned after the war for passing nuclear secrets to the Russians. |
 | | The two physicists were rapt neophytes together in Cambridge, and Walter, now revisiting his lecture notes in the light of nuclear knowledge not previously to hand, recalls the innocent excitement of scientific discovery and his enchantingly recounted courtship of Grace. |
 | | Nunn May, on the other hand, recruited to the frontline of Allied physicists developing the atomic bomb, took time to respond to the stirrings of conscience. |
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