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Building for the Atomic Age : An industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom's nuclear industry - Wayne D. ) Cocroft

Building for the Atomic Age

An industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom's nuclear industry

By: Wayne D. ) Cocroft

Hardcover | 28 February 2026

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To many in the generation of post-war readers of broadsheet newspapers, the technical press, 'boys' own' comics, and viewers of upbeat cinema newsreels, the industry's early leaders - the 'nuclear knights', William Penney, John Cockcroft and Christopher Hinton - were household names.

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