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
Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie as a limited edition 2-CD set titled "Atomic/Atomix: The Very Best of Blondie", including a second disc of previously available remixes with the exception of another new remix of the title track. In 2011, the compilation was reissued again as a single disc with identical track listing, but with the title being changed to "Essential", which was certified Gold in September 2018. Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie is a compilation album of recordings by the band Blondie released by EMI/Chrysalis Records in the UK and the rest of Europe in late 1998, at