Bangs and Stinks
James Buchan, 22 December 1994
Test of Greatness: Britain’s Struggle for the Atom Bomb
by Brian Cathcart.
Murray, 301 pp., £19.99, September 1994,0 7195 5225 7 Show More
by Brian Cathcart.
Murray, 301 pp., £19.99, September 1994,
“... high-powered grammar schools and industrial workbenches that produced men such as Penney and John Corner: at times, one feels transported to one of those Fifties films in which middle-aged young men in macs and hats and black spectacles are forever jumping into Daimlers and roaring down to Wallingford. The target of the British bomb, as has long been ... ”