Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly [Original retail ed.] 0374256829, 978-0374256821
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The start
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- Michael D. Gordin
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- History
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- Commentary
- “Michael Gordin brings vividly to life the end of the American atomic monopoly. By focusing on what each side knew—and did not know—about the other, he sheds new and original light on the origins of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race. This is a stylish book, with important implications for how we think about nuclear weapons past and present.” —David Holloway, author of Stalin and the Bomb
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