Professor Gareth Williams

Writer. Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Avid jazz musician. Not necessarily in that order.

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"It's a point of historical accuracy", I'm delighted to share my interview and article with @HistoryExtra on the topic of #Oppeneheimer and the overlooked British involvement in the atomic bomb. You can read (and watch) more here: https://t.co/na8nqydkuy #ChristopherNolan

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The United States created the world’s first atomic bomb, but could anyone else have done it first? Professor Gareth Williams explains how the Nazis might have pipped the USA to the post with their project – the German nuclear weapons program https://t.co/J7Pu54evQV

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Christopher Nolan’s #Oppenheimer fully deserves its five-star rating, says Professor Gareth Williams. But it also perpetuates a pervasive myth that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in August 1945 were all-American inventions… https://t.co/M4XHiJWUAp