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Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
- Title
- Trinity : the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history / Frank Close.
- Author
- Close, F. E.
- Publication
- [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | UB271.R92 F83 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
- Subject
- Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
- 1900-1999
- Spies > Soviet Union > Biography
- Espionage > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Espionage > United States > History > 20th century
- Nuclear weapons > History > 20th century
- Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain
- Espionage, Soviet > United States
- HISTORY > Military > General
- Espionage
- Espionage, Soviet
- Nuclear weapons
- Spies
- Great Britain
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: Oxford 1967 -- Escaping Hitler -- Tube alloys: 1941-3 -- Manhattan transfers: 1944-6 -- From Trinity to the Soviet atomic bomb: 1945-9 -- The haunting: 1949-50 -- Endgame: 1950 -- Fallout: 1950-59.
- ISBN
- 0241309832
- 9780241309834
- 9780241309896 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1083458006
- 1083458006
- SCSB-9491039
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library