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Trinity : the Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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. 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. Frank Close. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Who reads Trinity : the Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Frank Close
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241309834
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, History, Military History
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (114 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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