Atomic : the first war of physics and the secret history of the atomic bomb, 1939-49
Baggott, J. E.2009
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Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives. Jim Baggott weaves these threads into a monumental book 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.
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London : Icon ; Crows Nest, Australia : Allen & Unwyn ; Colchester [England] : Distributed in the UK by TBS Ltd, 2009.
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xiv, 576 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-558) and index.
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1848310447 (hbk)
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355.82511909355.825119
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English
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8607