Stalin and the bomb : the Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956 / David Holloway.
In engrossing detail, David Holloway tells us how Stalin launched a crash atomic program only after the Americans bombed Hiroshima and showed that the bomb could be built; how the information handed over to the Soviets by Klaus Fuchs helped in the creation of their bomb; how the scientific intelligentsia, which included such men as Andrei Sakharov, interacted with the police apparatus headed by the suspicious and menacing Lavrentii Beria; what steps Stalin took to counter U.S. atomic diplomacy; how the nuclear project saved Soviet physics and enabled it to survive as an island of intellectual autonomy in a totalitarian society; and what happened when, after Stalin's death, Soviet scientists argued that a nuclear war might extinguish all life on earth.
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- ISBN: 0300060564 :
- Physical Description: xvi, 464 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1994.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Ioffe's Institute -- Nuclear prehistory -- Reacting to fission -- Making a decision -- Getting started -- Hiroshima -- The Post-Hiroshima Project -- The Premises of policy -- The atomic industry -- The atomic bomb -- War and the atomic bomb -- The War of nerves -- Dangerous relations -- The hydrogen bomb -- After Stalin -- The atom and peace. |
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Lansdowne Library | UA 770 H632 1994 (Text) | 26040002703581 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |