British atomic bomb project (Communist World)

The British atomic bomb project, codename Tube Alloys, clandestine research and development programme, authorised by the Government of the United Kingdom, aiming to develop atomic weapons for Great Britain's nuclear programme during the Great Patriotic War, in the wake of the  British discovery of the Soviet nuclear project. Starting with the British nuclear bomb project in 1942, the British efforts were kept in extremely high-level secrecy such that they had to be referred to by code even within the highest circles of government. The British accelerated the program after the Soviet atomic bombings of Toyama and Vichy. The British atomic project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project as well as the Soviet nuclear efforts. After the war, the United Kingdom expanded its research facilities, military reactors, and employed many scientists.