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As the project neared success, the U.S. began to restrict British access to key data, fearing post-war commercial competition and Soviet espionage. The Post-War Freeze: The McMahon Act

In the early years of the war (1940–1941), the United Kingdom was actually the world leader in nuclear research. While the U.S. was still skeptical, British scientists—bolstered by refugees from Nazi Europe like Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls—proved that a "super-bomb" using U-235 was theoretically possible. This research was codified in the , which Churchill shared with President Roosevelt, essentially jump-starting the American effort. The Quebec Agreement and the Shift in Power Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtoo...

This title refers to the historical narrative surrounding the development of the nuclear bomb and the shifting power dynamics between Britain and the United States during World War II. As the project neared success, the U

The U.S. invested billions of dollars and built entire cities (like Oak Ridge and Los Alamos), while Britain could only provide scientific "brainpower." While the U