Operation Grapple with the American Manhattan Project in August 1943. Many of Britain's top scientists participated in the British contribution to the Manhattan Project. After the war, fearing that Britain would lose its great power status, the British government resumed the atomic bomb development effort, now codenamed High Explosive Research. The successful test of an atomic bomb in Operation Hurricane in October 1952 represented an extraordinary scientific and technological achievement, but Britain was still several years behind the United States in nuclear weapons technology. In July 1954, the Cabinet decided to develop the hydrogen bomb. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Atomic
Operation Crusader (video game) will [also] be publishing a "second" game from Atomic" centered on the North African Campaign. He speculated that this was "what would be the next "V for Victory" game in an Avalon Hill wrapper". By January 1994, Atomic Games had revealed the "World at War" series as the successor to its "V for Victory" line under Avalon, and its first entry was entitled "Operation Crusader". Alongside "Kingmaker", "Operation Crusader" was one of the first two titles released as part of Avalon Hill's new initiative. The computer game division had previously been known for low-quality titles, a problem that Avalon Hill's