Imagining a ‘Jewish atom bomb’, constructing a scientific diaspora

this article explores how Dr Chaim Weizmann, a prominent chemist and a Zionist leader, attempted to construct and mobilize a ‘scientific diaspora’. Empirically, the article draws on new archival evidence, revealing the hitherto unknown early efforts of the Zionist movement to acquire nuclear reactor and utilize the Jewish involvement in the American nuclear project for political leverage abroad...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221077313