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Tube Alloys was the code name of the United Kingdom's research and development programme, with participation from Canada, to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War. A 1940 memorandum on the possibility of a nuclear weapon led to the formation early in the war of the MAUD Committee, chaired by George Thomson (pictured), which called for an all-out development effort. Due to the high costs and the potential threat from German bombers, Tube Alloys was subsumed into the Manhattan Project by the Quebec Agreement. The United States did not provide complete details of the results to the United Kingdom. The Soviet Union gained valuable information through its atomic spies, who had infiltrated both the British and American projects. After the war the United States terminated co-operation with the enactment of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. This prompted the United Kingdom to relaunch its own project: High Explosive Research. (Full article...)
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Hi Hawkeye7 and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Note that I had a bit of difficulty selecting an image, what do you think of this one? Gog the Mild (talk) 13:04, 18 January 2020 (UTC)