Stalin and the bomb : the Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956 /

Stalin and the bomb : the Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956 /

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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 intellige...

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Main Author: Holloway, David, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Government policy > Soviet Union > History.
Nuclear energy > Research > Soviet Union > History.
Science and state > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ioffe's Institute
  • 2. Nuclear Prehistory
  • 3. Reacting to Fission
  • 4. Making a Decision
  • 5. Getting Started
  • 6. Hiroshima
  • 7. The Post-Hiroshima Project
  • 8. The Premises of Policy
  • 9. The Atomic Industry
  • 10. The Atomic Bomb
  • 11. War and the Atomic Bomb
  • 12. The War of Nerves
  • 13. Dangerous Relations
  • 14. The Hydrogen Bomb
  • 15. After Stalin
  • 16. The Atom and Peace.

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