Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly /
With the use of newly opened archives, "Red Cloud at Dawn" 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.
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a With the use of newly opened archives, "Red Cloud at Dawn" 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: What happened at Potsdam -- Atomic monopoly -- How much time do we have? -- Larger than Enormoz -- First lightning -- Making Vermont -- Dramatizing the situation -- The year of Joe -- Epilogue: Traces and tailings. | |
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