Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin

by Vince Houghton

Book Overview

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150173959X
• ISBN13: 9781501739590
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher