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...everyone expected them to usher in a new age of prosperity. But Britain's R. and D. capabilities were never sufficiently transferred to private industry. Because the British government was determined to remain a great power, it skewed research and development toward defense. Said Sir Henry Tizard, the father of radar and the government's chief science adviser between 1946 and 1952: "We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power, we shall soon cease to be a great nation." Britain, like the U.S. now, suffered from a profound neglect of its educational system...
Snow emphasizes that his critics missed the fundamental point of the book when they attacked his treatment of the personal controversy between. Tizard and Lindeman, two leading scientists who advised military strategy during World...
...than he did, then Germany would have won the war because England would never have developed radar. Churchill's impulse for victory would have been thwarted by the pettiness of his friend and scientific adviser Frederick A. Lindemann, who was blindly opposed to radar, and its supporter, Sir Henry Tizard...
Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...
...Ministry gave Tizard charge of a four-man committee to study British air defense. The group soon made a far-reaching recommendation: put every ounce of British brainpower into developing radar. Then Lindemann landed on the committee as Churchill's delegate. For a solid year, he argued so savagely for his own gadgety notions (infrared detection of enemy planes, aerial parachute mines) that at one point the committee broke up. Costly Victory. Tizard pressed on, and radar was ready in time to help win the Battle of Britain. But the feud had just begun. When Churchill became Prime Minister...