Foyle's War: The Eternity Ring question

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's set in 1946 and involves "the Eternity Ring,a group of Soviet sympathizers bent on betraying Britain's atomic secrets". What was the state of British atom bomb research at this particular time?

(not a veiled put-down of Britain: I don't know much about the British nuclear weapons programs)

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

You need to read up on Tube Alloys. That's the codename of the world's first nuclear bomb program -- the British one. It got under way via the MAUD committee in late 1940, and in 1943 the allies agreed to a merger -- the UK sent all their scientists and research material over to join the MP (on the strict understanding that the results of the MP would be shared: an understanding which was ignored by Harry Truman once the Manhattan Project delivered in 1945).

Also worth googling: Klaus Fuchs.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I knew parts of Tube Alloys (which is why it turns up in some of my AH). The post-war US stab in the back is reasonably well known, at least in the Commonwealth (granted, they did give us some loaners later on).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Agreement