The New Men, published in 1954, is the sixth novel in C. P. Snow's series Strangers and Brothers.

Lewis Eliot, his brother Martin, and Cambridge fellow, Walter Luke become involved with the scientific community and reaction to the development and deployment of nuclear weapons by Britain during the Second World War.

The story's main location is a fictional early British nuclear experimental establishment where the characters try to get an early nuclear pile going and also try to harvest enough enriched uranium or plutonium (they settle on going for plutonium) to try to beat the Americans to the bomb.

So instead, as this line from the book puts it,: “For a site, they picked on a place called Barford –which I had not heard of, but found to be a village in Warwickshire, a few miles from Stratford-upon-Avon”.

Several commentators on the book claim, or suggest, that not only is the research station fictional but so is the village of Barford.