Lot 188
Atom bomb.- , Articles of Agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the matter of Tube Alloys, 1943.
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Atom bomb.- Articles of Agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the matter of Tube Alloys, 4pp. bifolium, lightly browned, spotted, 8vo, 1943.
⁂ 'Tube Alloys' was a codename for the Britishproject to develop nuclear weaponsduring WW II. The first agreement between the United States and United Kingdom concerning nuclear weapons was made in Quebec, between Churchill and Roosevelt. A few top secret copies of the agreement weremade. (The Churchill archives has a letter from Churchill to the Canadian Prime Minister "enclosing for his most secret information a copy of the signed articles of agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the United States and Britain on the subject of Tube Alloys", though apparently not the copy itself.) This is one of the very few top secret copies made at the time of the Quebec agreement -- it belonged to Noel Melville, who was Head of of the Photographic and Reproductions Branch of the Air Ministry. No other contemporary copy traced in institutional holdings. The text was published in 1954.
Description
Atom bomb.- Articles of Agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the U.S.A. and the U.K. in the matter of Tube Alloys, 4pp. bifolium, lightly browned, spotted, 8vo, 1943.
⁂ 'Tube Alloys' was a codename for the Britishproject to develop nuclear weaponsduring WW II. The first agreement between the United States and United Kingdom concerning nuclear weapons was made in Quebec, between Churchill and Roosevelt. A few top secret copies of the agreement weremade. (The Churchill archives has a letter from Churchill to the Canadian Prime Minister "enclosing for his most secret information a copy of the signed articles of agreement governing collaboration between the authorities of the United States and Britain on the subject of Tube Alloys", though apparently not the copy itself.) This is one of the very few top secret copies made at the time of the Quebec agreement -- it belonged to Noel Melville, who was Head of of the Photographic and Reproductions Branch of the Air Ministry. No other contemporary copy traced in institutional holdings. The text was published in 1954.
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