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The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain...One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo- Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters and surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close pieces together an answer to whether Pontecorvo's defection did indeed bring an end to a life of spycraft -and exposes the truth of a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War...
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Half Life, Frank Close
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2015
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- Half Life
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Frank Close
- Wydawca
- Oneworld Publications
- Rok wydania
- 2015
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1780747462
- ISBN13
- 9781780747460
- Seria
- Kategorie
- Ocena
- 4,1 z 5
- Opis
- The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain...One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo- Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters and surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close pieces together an answer to whether Pontecorvo's defection did indeed bring an end to a life of spycraft -and exposes the truth of a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War...