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Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly

Gordin, Michael D.2009

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Focuses on the extraordinary story of First Lightning - the first Soviet test bomb detonated in 1949 - to provide a fresh understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race, as well as the all-too-urgent problem of proliferation.
Main title:
Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly / by Michael D. Gordin
Author:
Gordin, Michael D.
Imprint:
New York Farrar Straus and Giroux 2009
Collation:
402 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
Atomic monopoly - How much time do we have? - Larger than Enormoz - First lightning - Making Vermont - Dramatizing the situation - The year of Joe
ISBN:
9780374256821 (hbk 0374256829 hbk)
Dewey class:
623.4511 RED
Language:
English
Subject:
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953Nuclear arms race -- HistoryNuclear weapons -- HistoryWorld politics -- HistorySoviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United StatesUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
BRN:
3475
Bookmark link:
https://penrithcity.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3475

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