Red Cloud at Dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
ISBN: 9780312655426 | 0312655428
Edition: ReprintFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Picador
Pub. Date: 11/23/2010
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On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States. Michael D. Gordin folows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race.
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| List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Introduction What Happened at Potsdam | p. 3 |
| Atomic Monopoly | p. 25 |
| How Much Time Do We Have? | p. 63 |
| Larger Than Enormoz | p. 89 |
| First Lightning | p. 133 |
| Making Vermont | p. 179 |
| Dramatizing the Situation | p. 214 |
| The Year of Joe | p. 247 |
| Epilogue Traces and Tailings | p. 285 |
| Notes | p. 307 |
| Selected Sources | p. 377 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 381 |
| Index | p. 383 |
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Michael D. Gordin is an associate professor of the history of science at Princeton University. He is the author of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.
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