Science at War

Abstract

IN a foreword to this popular account of how science helped the armed forces to win the War, Sir Henry Dale explains that the object of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet in securing approval for the preparation of this work was "to make available to the public an authoritative account of some of the more important aspects of the scientific contribution to the war effort, based on official archives, but so written as to be acceptable to the reader without special scientific education". Naturally, the whole field of the scientific war effort cannot be covered in a single volume, and the authors have chosen radar, operational research, the atomic bomb, and science and the sea, because of their wide interest, as typical illustrations. All four are essentially British contributions.

Science at War

By J. G. Crowther R. Whiddington. Pp. vi + 185 + 51 plates. (London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1947.) 2s. 6d. net.