 |  | | | Women scientists | 01 August 2005 | | |
The atomic bomb
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In her new book Before the Fall-Out Diana Preston explains women's contribution to the science that helped develop the bomb. From Marie Curie's discovery of radium to Lise Meitner's work on nuclear fission.
Diana also tells the rarely known story of Lise's refusal to join the British atomic development team on moral grounds by simply saying 'I will have nothing to do with a bomb'.
Diana Preston joins Jenni in the studio
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