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Originally Posted by RN7
Britain had an atomic weapons programme but it wouldn't have independently produced an atomic bomb before 1950 without American involvement.
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That's not the interpretation I gained from reading about Britain's nuclear weapons research. In fact it appears completely opposite what you state here. Britain was conducting atomic weapons research in 1940. It sent it's data and it's researchers to the US to encourage and assist the US in building atomic weapons.
The US was supposed to share all its findings with the UK but didn't due to security concerns. Britain essentially rebuilt its atomic weapons programme from scratch without any outside assistance so that approximately five years after wars end, they had working technology.
Edit: for more, refer to my post here
http://forum.juhlin.com/showpost.php...5&postcount=97