Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 - Jim Baggott - Books - Icon Books Ltd - 9781848310445 - March 5, 2009
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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49

Jim Baggott

Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49

Presents an account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.


576 pages, Illustrations, unspecified

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 5, 2009
ISBN13 9781848310445
Publishers Icon Books Ltd
Pages 576
Dimensions 162 × 240 × 53 mm   ·   934 g

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