Research Catalog

Title

The spy who changed the world / Mike Rossiter.

Author

Rossiter, Mike

Publication

London : Headline, 2014.

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Details

Description

vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Brilliant German physicist Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project and developed many of the significant calculations that led to the creation of nuclear weaponry. He was also a spy. When the three leaders of the victorious allies, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, met at Potsdam in July 1945, President Truman announced to Stalin that the US had a new and devastating weapon. Observers report that Stalin paid no attention to this remark. In fact, Stalin was well aware of the existence of the atomic bomb, and the Soviet Union was rapidly developing its own. Stalin owed his knowledge to the atomic scientist Dr Klaus Fuchs, who can lay claim to being the most successful spy in history. A refugee from Nazi Germany, entrusted with crucial work at the very heart of the British and American nuclear weapons project, Fuchs gave every piece of information he had to the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency. His espionage accelerated the start of the Cold War between Russia and the West, and caused a split between the US and British governments that forced Britain to build its own atomic weapons. The world that Fuchs helped create remained in the grip of a nuclear stand off for a generation.

Alternative Title

Spy who changed the world : Klaus Fuchs and the secrets of the nuclear bomb

Subjects

• United States
• Nuclear weapons
• Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
• Great Britain
• Espionage, Soviet > Great Britain
• Espionage, Soviet > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-4212

ISBN

• 9780755365647
• 075536564X
• 9780755365654
• 0755365658

OCLC

881346616

Author

Rossiter, Mike, author.

Title

The spy who changed the world / Mike Rossiter.

Publisher

London : Headline, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Title on dust jacket : Spy who changed the world : Klaus Fuchs and the secrets of the nuclear bomb

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4212