Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly by Michael D. Gordin

Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

Michael D. Gordin

402 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a...

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