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Author:

Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike, author.

Title:

Atomic Spy : The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs / Nancy Thorndike Greenspan.

Edition:

hardcover

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

400 pages

Subject:

Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius,--1911-1988.
Spies--Soviet Union--Biography.
Spies--Great Britain--Biography.
Spies--United States--Biography.
Espionage, Soviet--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Espionage, Soviet--United States--History--20th century.
Physicists--Germany--Biography.
Nuclear weapons--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Revelations, London August 1949 -- Beginnings, Leipzig 1930 -- Loss, Kiel 1931 -- Revolt, Kiel 1932 -- Leader, Kiel 1933 -- Underground, Berlin 1933 -- Interlude, Paris 1933 -- Safety, Bristol 1933 -- War, Edinburgh 1937 -- Internment, England 1940 -- Internment, Canada 1940 -- Tube Alloys, Birmingham 1941 -- Manhattan Project, New York 1944 -- Trinity, Los Alamos 1945 -- Director, Harwell 1946 -- Suspects, London September 1949 -- Surveillance, Harwell September 1949 -- Disposal, London October 1949 -- Interrogation, London November 1949 -- Disposal again, London January 1950 -- Confession, Harwell January 1950 -- Arrest, London February 1950 -- Trial, London March 1950 -- FBI, London May 1950 -- Prison, Wormwood Scrubs, June 1950 -- East Germany, Berlin 1959 -- Expectations, Dresden 1960 -- Epilogue : Remembrances, Berlin March 1989.

Summary:

"The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593083393
9780593083390

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1124907692

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