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BRITAIN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB.
Advance Release k. 367: Britain and the Atomic Bomb. Washington, D.C.: British Information Services, August 12, 1945.

21 September 2015, 13:00 EDT
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BRITAIN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB.

Advance Release k. 367: Britain and the Atomic Bomb. Washington, D.C.: British Information Services, August 12, 1945.
Folio (278 x 215 mm) 22 pp mimeograph on rectos only.
WITH: The same, with slightly different type-setting, printed in blue ink rather than black, and with page numbers at the top rather than bottom. Both with original corner staples removed.
Provenance: The War Museum.

ADVANCE COPY, "not for publication before morning papers of Monday, August 13th, 1945," of the official British press release describing the events leading to the production of atomic bombs, and the dropping of the first of them on Japan. The document was evidently prepared just after the dropping of the first bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, and provides a detailed account of the co-operation between the US, Canada, and Britain "which led up to or was associated with this remarkable achievement." No hyperbole is spared in the document, which refers to the bomb's development as "one of the greatest triumphs of human genius of which there is record."

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