| 单词 | tube alloys |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTube Alloys Tube Alloys n. the code name of a section of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research formed in 1940 and concerned with research into the production of an atomic bomb. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > other organizations or departments Tube Alloys1942 SHAPE1950 1942 J. Anderson in M. Gowing Brit. & Atomic Energy 1939–45 (1964) App. iii. 437 When you asked me to take over the supervision of work on the project known as ‘Tube Alloys’, it was contemplated that..a full scale production would be expected in this country. 1945 W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 221 Imperial Chemicals Industries Limited agreed to release Mr. W. A. Akers to take charge of this directorate, which we called, for purposes of secrecy, the Directorate of ‘Tube Alloys’. 1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xxxv. 309 The British ‘Tube Alloys’ project, as our own nuclear bomb effort was called. < as lemmas |
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