Abstract
This short chapter outlines briefly the start of the British atomic bomb project, code-named ‘Tube Alloys’, under refugee scientists Otto Robert Frisch and Rudolf Peierls. Both men were to be part of the British team working on the Manhattan Project (the American code name for the atomic bomb project) from 1942 onwards. Peierls was responsible for recruiting Klaus Fuchs to his laboratory in Birmingham and later to the ‘Manhattan Project’.
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