This was a very exciting time to go to the Cavendish, it was the center of nuclear physics in the whole world.

Eric Burhop

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The discovery of nuclear fission was a German discovery and it appeared very likely that German physicists would be developing nuclear weapons, one knew that if the Nazis were to obtain this weapon then it would have a a decisive influence on the war, and Hitler would have no inhibitions about how to use the weapon.

In this McCarthyist era, people got tarred and feathered for being members of the( Communist) party, does that necessarily make them spies ? the only place you can find( definitive) evidence for these people being spies is either they've admitted to it or in the Soviet archives.

During most of my scientific career I have been very interested in the problems of the implications of science and of the social responsibility of the scientist, i Eric Burhop have devoted most of my spare time activities since the end of the war to this purpose.

I was asked to work on the development of nuclear weapons. by Eric Burhop

I was asked to work on the development of nuclear weapons.

Many of us felt that having played a part in the development of nuclear weapons we had a duty and responsibility to do our utmost to see that they were never used again.