Montreal and the Bomb

The author outlines the role played by Montreal in the development of the nuclear bomb during the Second World War. With war raging in Europe, the British wanted to get a jump ahead of Hitler and the physicists working for the Third Reich. England was too close to the enemy, so it was decided to secretly establish a nuclear research laboratory in Montreal. The best European research scientists moved to Montreal with two goals in mind: develop an ultra-powerful bomb and find a new source of energy. In competition with the Americans after Washington launched the Manhattan Project, the Tube Alloys project of the Montreal Laboratory, as it was called, used facilities located at the Université de Montréal and McGill University. The author focuses primarily on those scientists, both European and Canadian, who worked out of the Université de Montréal, but information is included on those working out of McGill.

Montreal

Baraka Books

2021

208p.

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