Sam Richards

The future is nuclear, whether Labour like it or not

When Harold Wilson stood on the stage at Labour’s 1963 party conference to open a debate on science, he pledged to harness the ‘white heat of technology’, but Britain was already a global scientific superpower in a critical field – nuclear energy. In 1917, Rutherford split the atom in Manchester. In 1932, Cockcroft and Walton […]