In 1943, Mark Oliphant arrived on the Manhattan Project as a leading member of the British mission. Inside the laboratory he was a measured and skilful physicist, but outside he was a bull that charged headlong into the gates of secrecy and the unholy communion of science, politics and military. General Leslie Groves was the abrasive and practical military man in charge of the Manhattan Project and he rarely let his guard down. But in 1944, Oliphant and Ernest Lawrence challenged him on secrecy, and the usually circumspect Groves became agitated at the naivety of the self-absorbed scientists and provided an insight on America’s secret post-war intentions of an atomic monopoly. Oliphant, not a man to let explosive knowledge pass him by, headed to the British Embassy inWashington to send a secure report to London that escalated all the way to the top of Britain’s war time leadership. In this moment, Oliphant was sounding a horn to warn that Britain’s own atomic ambitions and scientific freedoms were under imminent threat.

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“关于 Oliphant 的设计，现在响起”：Mark Oliphant 如何秘密警告美国战后的原子垄断意图

1943 年，马克·奥利芬特 (Mark Oliphant) 作为英国代表团的主要成员抵达曼哈顿计划。在实验室里，他是一个谨慎而熟练的物理学家，但在实验室外，他是一头公牛，一头冲进了秘密的大门，以及科学、政治和军事的邪恶交流。莱斯利·格罗夫斯将军是负责曼哈顿计划的粗暴而务实的军人，他很少放松警惕。但在 1944 年，奥利芬特和欧内斯特劳伦斯向他提出保密挑战，通常谨慎的格罗夫斯对自私自利的科学家的天真感到不安，并提供了对美国战后原子垄断秘密意图的洞察。Oliphant，一个不会让爆炸性知识从他身边溜走的人，前往英国驻华盛顿大使馆向伦敦发送一份安全报告，该报告一直升级到英国战时领导层的最高层。此刻，奥利芬特正在吹响号角，警告英国自己的原子野心和科学自由正面临迫在眉睫的威胁。