How an Australian scientist tried to stop the US plan to monopolise the nuclear arms race
- Written by Darren Holden, PhD Candidate, University of Notre Dame Australia
Mark Oliphant in 1939.
From a collection at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Gift of Ms Vivian Wilson 2004Australian scientist Mark Oliphant, who helped push the United States to develop the atomic bombs in World War II, also played a major role during the war in attempting to stop the US dominating the UK in any further development of...