The British mission at Los Alamos - the scientific dimension; the British mission at Los Alamos - the social dimension; the aftermath; varieties of the British mission experience; the strange tale of Klaus Fuchs; the British mission and the postwar nuclear culture. Appendices: the postwar careers of the British mission; the Frisch-Peierls memorandum (March 1940); Ralph Carlisle Smith's summary of the British mission at Los Alamos; Otto Frisch's eyewitness account of the July 16, 1945, atomic explosion at trinity site, Alamogordo air base, New Mexico.