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Cherwell, Lord

At the time, N was probably the greatest Allied secret of the war after the atomic bomb. All documents connected with it carried the highest security classification Top Secret Guard (which the Americans jokingly translated as Destroy Before Reading ). In February 1944, when Lord Cherwell, Churchill s scientific advisor, wrote the Prime Minister an account of N, the official typist left blanks in the typescript which Cherwell went through and filled in by hand. [Pg.59]

Lord Cherwell s minute to Churchill about the appalling potentiality of anthrax. As a security precaution, the typist left blanks in the text which Cherwell filled in by hand (Public Record Office). [Pg.60]

Eisenhower told Churchill of the American fear, and Churchill in his turn minuted Ismay I wish Lord Cherwell to explain a certain matter to the Chiefs of Staff at the earliest opportunity, and then for the Chiefs of Staff to let me have their advice thereon. Let this be arranged. 48... [Pg.79]

One day later, on the morning of 28 February, Ismay read Cherwell s paper to a secret session of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. They feel , he told Churchill that afternoon, that Hider would not hesitate to indulge in this form of warfare if he thought that it would pay him to do so, and that the only deterrent would be our power to retaliate. The Chiefs of Staff accordingly agree with Lord Cherwell that we cannot afford not to have N bombs in our armoury. 9... [Pg.211]

Note in particular the influence of Professor F.A. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) in physics especially from 1925-1940. See R. Fox and G. Gooday. Physics in Oxford 1839 1939, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. [Pg.288]

Churchill received Cherwell s recommendation on August 27. Three days later he minuted his military advisers, alluding ironically to the effects of the Blitz Although personally I am quite content with the existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement, and I therefore think that action should be taken in the sense proposed by Lord Cherwell. ... [Pg.372]

In the early twenties, several scientists puzzled over how a reacting molecule in an unimolecular reaction could acquire sufficient internal energy to react. Jean Perrin proposed in 1919 that energy was provided by radiation from the walls of the reaction vessel. Frederick Lindemann, the later Lord Cherwell, strongly objected against this Radiation Theory of Chemical Action and presented an alternative view in 1921, which is still regarded as essentially correct. It explains a remarkable feature of unimolecular reactions The rate of a unimolecular reaction is first order in the reactant at normal pressure, but may become second order at low pressure. [Pg.174]

Peter Thonemann, working on fusion at the Clarendon laboratory at Oxford, managed to produce a current of 2,000 A in a plasma contained in a copper torus. His work impressed Cockcroft and Lord Cherwell, who was at that time responsible for atomic energy (Cherwell was once Director of the Clarendon laboratory, appointed in 1919), and as a result he moved to Harwell. The apparent success of some of Thonemann s early experiments then led to the design of a new, very large, apparatus named ZETA, which was built in a hangar at Harwell. [Pg.182]


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