Fallout : conspiracy, cover-up, and the deceitful case for the atom bomb
Record details
- ISBN: 9781610399616
- ISBN: 1610399617
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Physical Description:
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423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Public Affairs, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A new history"--Dust jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface--Cover-up: 'When the righteous sin' -- PART ONE: Incognito: Klaus Fuchs and Niels Bohr. Zigzag -- PART TWO: The overestimate of the Germans. The taste of fear : the menace of fission ; The beginnings of a 'strategic game' ; Struggles over secrecy ; The midwives ; The strategic sabotage of heavy water ; The first glimpses of Germany's nuclear secrets ; The 'crown jewel' of secrets ; Intelligence blackout : the fatal mistake ; Fall out ; 'Hard evidence' of Soviet spying ; The secret agenda of General Groves ; The Bohr scare ; A vital clue vanishes ; 'Don't bother me with your scruples' : the loss of innocence ; The claws of the bear -- PART THREE: Lives in parallel: Niels Bohr and Klaus Fuchs. The little fox ; Lunch in the Supreme Court ; 'The mission he had been waiting for' ; A president 'eager for help' ; The letter from Moscow ; The Prime Minister's mistake ; The bomb in trouble : mistakes at Los Alamos ; The President's mistake -- PART FOUR: The underestimate of the Russians. Bohr and Stalin ; Fuchs : shining in the shadows. |
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