The spy who changed the world: Klaus Fuchs, physicist and soviet double agent

✍ Scribed by Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius;Rossiter, Mike

• Book ID: 100591731
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Edition: 14
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain., United States.
• ISBN: 1510726756

✦ Synopsis

Trinity -- The interview -- The commitment -- We'll always have Paris -- Asylum -- Interned -- The biggest secret -- A lady from Banbury -- Allies in name -- Mission to New York -- Camp Y -- The end result -- After the bomb -- Dangerous days -- Pillar of the establishment -- The third contact -- The next big thing -- A family affair -- The hunt -- Hey Joe -- Trailing Mr. Fuchs -- The first encounter -- One step forward, two steps back -- Confession -- Trial -- A visit from the FBI -- Legacy.;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.

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United States