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020 $a9781610399616 (hbk.) :$cNT$1050
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100 1 $aWatson, Peter,$d1943-
245 10$aFallout :$bconspiracy, cover-up, and the deceitful case for the atom bomb /$cPeter Watson.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bPublic Affairs,$c2018.
300 $a423 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24cm.
500 $aA new history.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface--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.
520 $aSECOND WORLD WAR. This scintillating narrative of spies and science shows how the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between America and Britain --resulting in a threat of nuclear war that still haunts us today. Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an atomic bomb and excluding their Russian allies. Peter Watson tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomic physicists tried to counter this in two very different ways. While Niels Bohr sought to convince President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to share their nuclear knowledge with Stalin, nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs, a German Communist emigre to Britain, was leaking atomic secrets to the Soviets in a rival attempt to ensure parity between the superpowers.
650 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xDiplomatic history.
650 0$aAtomic bomb$xPolitical aspects.
650 0$aAtomic bomb$zUnited States$vHistory.
650 0$aAtomic bomb$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0$aNuclear arms control.
650 0$aCold War.
651 0$aUnited States$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0$aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1953.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$y1945-1991.