Quebec Agreement
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The Quebec Agreement was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlining the terms for the coordinated development of the science and engineering related to nuclear energ
Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference in August 1943
Sir John Anderson, the minister responsible for Tube Alloys
Vannevar Bush, Director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development
Lord Cherwell (foreground, in bowler hat) was scientific advisor to Winston Churchill (centre)
John Cockcroft
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led to the development of
Cockcroft in 1951
The house in Walsden, Todmorden, where Cockcroft lived from the age of two until he was 28-years-old.
GL Mk. III radar
A proximity fuze