The Spy and the Atom Gun

✍ Seth, Ronald 📂 Fiction 🏛 Ariel Books 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB

In Gallonia, a small European country behind the Iron Curtain, scientists have developed a secret weapon: an atomic gun light enough to be carried in one hand, but capable of annihilating a tank with a single blast. Through Gallonia's resistance movement plans are made to transmit knowledge of the g

✍ Seth, Ronald 📂 Fiction 🏛 Ariel Books 🌐 English ⚖ 67 KB

In Gallonia, a small European country behind the Iron Curtain, scientists have developed a secret weapon: an atomic gun light enough to be carried in one hand, but capable of annihilating a tank with a single blast. Through Gallonia's resistance movement plans are made to transmit knowledge of the g

The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

✍ Plokhy, Serhii 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Basic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

_From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage_ In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, S

Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

✍ Fuchs, Klaus;Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius;Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

**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.** German by birth, British by naturaliz

Gun Ownership and the Gun Control Index

✍ Mark Gius 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 50 KB

The spy who tried to stop a war: Katharine Gun and the secret plot to sanction the Iraq invasion

✍ Gun, Katharine;Mitchell, Marcia;Mitchell, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers; William Collins 🌐 English ⚖ 142 KB

pt. 1. Invitation to a conspiracy. Message sent -- Message received -- Four weeks that changed everything -- Conscience meets Inspector Tintin -- pt. 2. Fallout. Detour on the secret road to war -- Outrage -- Silence in Washington -- Taiwan calling -- pt. 3. The woman. Eight months in limbo -- The t