Author

Publication

2019-08-01 - Allen Lane

Language

English

Word Count

132,000 words, Guess

Page Count

528 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCUB271.R92

Description

A thrilling new history of the most damaging nuclear spy ever to undermine the West, by an important scientific practitioner. Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announced at the Potsdam Conference that the US possessed a nuclear bomb, Stalin already knew. This book, by an accomplished scientist as well as historian, is the first to explain the physics as well as the spying, and because Frank Close worked, like Fuchs, at the Harwell Laboratory, it contains much important new material.

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Other Editions

  • Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in HistoryHardcoverAllen Lane2019-08-01

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