The Resource The spy who changed the world, Mike Rossiter
The spy who changed the world, Mike Rossiter
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The item The spy who changed the world, Mike Rossiter represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780755365654
- Label
- The spy who changed the world
- Title
- The spy who changed the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Mike Rossiter
- Title variation
- Spy who changed the world
- Title variation remainder
- Klaus Fuchs and the secrets of the nuclear bomb
- Subject
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- Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain
- Espionage, Soviet -- United States
- Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
- Nuclear weapons
- Espionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Nuclear weapons -- United States
- Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain
- Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rossiter, Mike
- Dewey number
- 327.12
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius
- Espionage
- Nuclear weapons
- Espionage
- Espionage, Soviet
- Spies
- Nuclear weapons
- Nuclear weapons
- Spies
- Espionage, Soviet
- Spies
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The spy who changed the world, Mike Rossiter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052956141
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780755365654
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- The spy who changed the world, Mike Rossiter
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052956141
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vi, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780755365654
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
Subject
- Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain
- Espionage, Soviet -- United States
- Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
- Nuclear weapons
- Espionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Nuclear weapons -- United States
- Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Spies -- United States -- Biography
- Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain
- Espionage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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