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Trinity

Trinity Paperback / softback -

by Frank Close

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metap
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  • Title Trinity
  • Author Frank Close
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780141986449_inp
  • ISBN 9780141986449 / 0141986441
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 5 x 1 in (19.69 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Spies - Soviet Union, Espionage, Soviet - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020478015
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 60

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From the publisher

"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. This exceptional book tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR. Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, World War II and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, including after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, "Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations." This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their center.

About the author

Frank Close is Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University and Fellow Emeritus in Physics at Exeter College, Oxford. He was formerly Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell, vice president of the British Association for Advancement of Science and Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN. He was awarded the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics in 1996, an OBE for "services to research and the public understanding of science" in 2000, and the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for communicating science in 2013. As a young man he worked with Rudolf Peierls, in circumstances he describes in this book.

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