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An epic story of research and technology at the limits of individual understanding: the monumental contest to make the first atomic weaponry. Abundant with personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First Warfare of Physics is the first totally realized popular account of the contest to make humankind's most dangerous weapon. The e book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Plantation Hall transcripts, coded Soviet announcements cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives. Jim Baggott weaves these threads into a dramatic narrative that spans 10 historic years, from the breakthrough of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of "Joe-1", August 1949's first Soviet atomic bomb test. Why does physicists persist in producing the atomic bomb, despite the devastation that it could bring? Why, despite developing a clear head start, does Hitler's physicists are unsuccessful? Could the Soviets are suffering from the bomb without spies like Klaus Fuchs or Donald Maclean? Do the allies really plot to assassinate an integral person in the German bomb program? Do the physicists knowingly motivate the arms contest? The First Warfare of Physics is a grand and scary story of clinical ambition, intrigue, and genius: a tale scarcely believable as fiction, which just happens to be historical fact.
