Editing Jacob Bronowski (section)

==Wartime work in military analysis==
[[File:J Bronowski.jpg|thumb|Jacob Bronowski]]
During the [[Second World War]], Bronowski worked in [[operations research]] for the UK's [[Ministry of Home Security]], where he developed mathematical approaches to bombing strategy for [[RAF Bomber Command]].

At the end of the war, Bronowski was part of a British team of scientists and [[civil engineer]]s who visited [[Japan]] to document the effects of the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]] for the purpose of studying the effects of the atomic bomb and its implications for future UK [[civil defence]]. Bronowski, in conjunction with Professor W. N. Thomas of [[Cardiff University]],<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers |date=June 1962 |volume=22 |issue=2 |title=Obituary: Professor William Norman Thomas CBE, MA, PhD |pages=249–50 |doi=10.1680/iicep.1962.11092 |url=https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/iicep.1962.11092}}</ref> subsequently produced the secret ''Report of the British Mission to Japan: the Effects of the Atomic Bombs Dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=W. N. |last2=Bronowski |first2=Jacob |author2-link=Jacob Bronowski |display-authors=etal |title=The Effects of the Atomic Bombs Dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Report of the British Mission to Japan |date=c. 1946 |publisher=US Atomic Energy Commission |place=Tennessee |series=Publication No. NP-1156 |url=https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4430289 |format=PDF}} NB! This file has no identifying file extension: you will need to save it as <code>4430289.pdf</code> in order to open it in a pdf reader.</ref> which was passed to various government departments and consulted in the design of future UK public buildings. It was simultaneously published in the US.