The Spy Who Changed The World

Klaus Fuchs and the Secrets of the Nuclear Bomb

Mike Rossiter

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Headline
10 June 2014

History; Espionage & secret services

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. Then in 1950, his spy mission complete, he made an unprompted confession to MI6. The world that Fuchs helped create remained in the grip of a nuclear stand off for a generation.

By: Mike Rossiter
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780755365654
ISBN 10: 0755365658
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 10 June 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active