Book description
'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 metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus…
Why read it?
1 author picked Trinity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Frank Close, himself a distinguished physicist, gives a unique insight into the life of the “atom spy” Klaus Fuchs, who provided the USSR with the secrets of the atomic bomb.
Although the science doesn’t intrude, the authoritative background makes the book a gripping read (or listen!) from which I learned a lot.
The astonishing incompetence of the “security” experts who let a known communist sympathizer join the Manhattan Project, and the polite way he was handled when his treachery was discovered makes you wonder how we ever won the war.
It couldn’t happen again – could it?
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