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<br>Jim Baggott weaves these threads into a dramatic narrative that spans ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of 'Joe-1, ' August 1949's first Soviet atomic bomb test. Why did physicists persist in developing the atomic bomb, despite the devastation that it could bring? Why, despite having a clear head start, did Hitler's physicists fail? Could the soviets have developed the bomb without spies like Klaus Fuchs or Donald Maclean? Did the allies reall
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- Author
- Jim Baggott
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books, Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781605980843
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Military, Fiction, Physics
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (230 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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