>> graham barr mellows another returning author.ote a book called the strangest man which is the biography of paul tarak. the new book is about the race to create nuclear technology during world war ii and all of the best scientists many of them who had immigrated into england from europe in the lead-up to world war ii were based in england. they were developing you know efforts to build an atomic tom. this is really a story about failed scientific leadership and churchill for all of his many wonderful political qualities actually really dropped the ball on the development of the atomic bomb. he offered no funding and knowing courage meant to the scientists and allowed america to take the lead and develop the atomic bomb. by the time the bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the british role in all of this have been completely forgotten. the sad part of the story is later in his life churchill who was kind of dismissed with nuclear technology throughout his career as a politician suddenly becomes aware of how destructive and