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The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War

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The Second World War, with its emphasis on innovative weapons and defence technology, brought about massive changes within the role of scientists in Canada, america, and Great Britain. Canadian scientists, working during the auspices of the National Research Council and the Department of National Defence, made essential contributions to the development of alliance warfare.

Before 1939, Canada had just a minute military establishment and a limited industrial and academic capacity for research and development. With the outbreak of war, all this changed dramatically. This book explains how and why Canada was once ready to play within the big leagues of military technology, including the development of radar, RDX explosives, proximity fuses, chemical and biological warfare, and the atomic bomb. It also investigates the evolution of the Canadian national security state, which attempted to give protection to defence secrets both from the Axis powers and from Canada’s wartime ally, the Soviet Union.

The Science of War provides both a cross-disciplinary overview of the scientific and military activity of this period in several countries and a captivating analysis of what the writer calls ‘Big Science’ in Canada.

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