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HarwellLiterature
Further reading


Articles
New authority for atomic energyKhrushchev and Bulganin charm offensiveBEPO: Wigner Energy Release (1958)The miracle of atomic energyBiographiesBEPO and the Turin ShroudAtom HarvestSir John Cockcroft and Atomic EnergyNuclear physics in the United Kingdom 1911-1986Russian spy in the CotswoldsLos Alamos from belowFateful discovery almost forgottenUK panel on gamma and electron irradiation: A brief history 1963-1984Worlds oldest digital computer gets reboot: the DekatronHaunt of the Hammer Gang
RAF Harwell
Before the warCelestial towersA personal history of RAF Station Harwell
Publications
NewslettersTechnical publications
Other materials
PhotographsFilms

Literature: Overview


Articles
New authority for atomic energy: Report from the BBC on the announcement of the newly-formed Atomic Energy Authority (AEA) to control the production and development of atomic energy in the UK (12th February 1954)
Khrushchev and Bulganin charm offensive: Visit to the UK by Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin including a visit to Harwell (18-27 April 1956)
BEPO: Wigner Energy Release (1958): The Windscale disaster (10 October 1957) and work at Harwell on BEPO to characterise the Wigner Effect in graphite
The miracle of atomic energy: An address by John Cockcroft to The Empire Club of Canada (12th November 1959)
Biographies: Collected biographies
BEPO and the Turin Shroud: A talk by Kitty Little, a retired nuclear physicist from Harwell, to the British Society for the Turin Shroud (BSTS) (26th April 1995)
Atom Harvest: A British view of atomic energy (Leonard Bertin, published 1957)
Sir John Cockcroft and Atomic Energy: The First Cockcroft Memorial Lecture given by Lord Penney and published in the Journal of the British Nuclear Energy Society; see pp.295+ (October 1968)
Nuclear physics in the United Kingdom 1911-1986: An article by W E Burcham from Rep. Prog. Phys. 52 (1989) 823-879
Russian spy in the Cotswolds: A Russian spy in the Cotswolds who sent her reports back to Moscow via her washing line (An article about Agent Sonya, Mail on Sunday, 10 July 2016)
Los Alamos from below: Adapted from a talk given in 1975 by Richard Feynman on his reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945
Fateful discovery almost forgotten: Article from NATURE in February 1989 on the 50th anniversary of nuclear fission. (PDF courtesy Phil Greatorex.)
UK panel on gamma and electron irradiation: A brief history 1963-1984: Originally from https://www.irradiationpanel.org/ this article describes work at the UKAEA Wantage Research Laboratory
Worlds oldest digital computer gets reboot: the Dekatron: Article from Didcot Oxford Mail, 21 November 2012
Haunt of the Hammer Gang: Article in the Wantage Herald from July 2021

RAF Harwell
Before the war: Harwell before the war
Celestial towers: RAF Harwell's Celestial Navigation Trainers
A personal history of RAF Station Harwell: Memoirs of Jim Jones, written early 1980s. Originally from https://docplayer.net/44580127-A-personal-history-of-royal-air-force-station-harwell.html

Publications
Newsletters: echo plus a few CH News, Harlequin, atom, and the Harwell Bulletin
Technical publications: Brochures for Harwell accelerator and reactor services, information about the Apprentice Scheme, and a short history of CADET

Other materials
Photographs
Films
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