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Nuclear secrets revealed
Nuclear secrets revealed
Last Modified: 01 Jun 2007
By:
Julian Rush
The secret world war two documents smuggled out of France - that chart the birth of the nuclear bomb.
Top-secret research smuggled across the channel - it sounds like the plot of a war time classic.
Sealed since the 2nd World War, classified documents have just been opened: written by French nuclear scientists, and brought to Britain in 1940, they were hidden away - their contents considered too significant to share.
Today's events coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the neutron - a vital stage in the development of the atom bomb.
Our Science Correspondent Julian Rush went along to look at have a look.
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