Operation Grapple Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951. Fearing a resurgence of American isolationism and Britain losing its great power status, the British government restarted its own 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. Britain became the world's third nuclear power, reaffirming the country's status as a great power, but hopes that the United States would be sufficiently impressed to restore the Special Relationship were soon dashed. In November 1952, the United States conducted Ivy Mike, the first successful test of a
The Heart of What Was Lost "a glorious return to a landmark work of Epic Fantasy". The Heart of What Was Lost The Heart of What Was Lost is the fourth novel in Tad Williams' Osten Ard saga, following "To Green Angel Tower" and preceding "The Witchwood Crown". The novel was critically praised upon its release. The book is published by DAW Books in the United States, and Hodder Books in the UK. After Ineluki the Storm King's fall in "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn", his followers, the Norns, flee the lands of men and retreat north to their ancient city of Nakkiga. As the Norns make