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vi, 267 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-257) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Secrets -- 2. Inner light, party line : the red foxes of Kiel -- 3. Keep and eye on them : German communist refugees -- 4. From internment to intelligence -- 5. The girl from Banbury -- 6. Gold in Manhattan -- 7. Los Alamos : the plutonium connection -- 8. Harwell : building the British bomb -- 9. The super and the Soviet code -- 10. Confessions and trial -- 11. A serious mistake -- 12. Science, secrecy, and security -- 13. The return home. |
| Summary |
"The 1950 espionage case of Klaus Fuchs, who betrayed British and American atomic secrets to the soviet Union, touched off a witch hunt in the United States that led to the capture of the Rosenbergs and many other alleged spies. The case fueled the fires of national concern over communism, Soviet espionage, internal subversion, and security in the nuclear age. Robert C. Williams has tenaciously retraced Fuchs's personal story but has also established that his espionage was part of a much larger Soviet effort to penetrate and control British intelligence."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988.
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Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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Espionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain.
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Nuclear weapons -- United States.
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Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988 (OCoLC)fst01718335
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Espionage. (OCoLC)fst00915379
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Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
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Spies. (OCoLC)fst01129772
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0674505077 |
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9780674505070 |
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