so now, i give you the wonderful kevin ruane, who will tell us some things about his book. [applause] kevin: thank you, edwina. is this mic ok? thank you, a very generous introduction. it is great to be back again, so thank you to the whole family for giving me this platform two years in a row. it is a great honor. i thought i would begin by saying a little bit about how i came to write this book. how i came to churchill and the bomb. big man, big subject. it really began about five years ago, when i was asked to do work by the churchill archives. that is to say the online digital repository of all of churchill's papers, which you have heard about from lawrence amongst others already in the conference. i'm told close to one million individual images, so from his mother all the way to the cold war. the archive is a joint venture between churchill college, or the archive center where the materials originally are. this is one of the jewels in the crown of this digital age, and although it is subscription only for universities and what i call grown up organizations, it has alrea

we have kevin, kevin ruane here, who has written this very, very