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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452859403321

Autore

Hornblum Allen M

Titolo

The invisible Harry Gold [[electronic resource] ] : the man who gave the Soviets the atom bomb / / Allen M. Hornblum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-15678-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/2092

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Soggetti

Spies - United States

Chemists - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Prisoners - Pennsylvania

Espionage, Soviet - United States - History

Atomic bomb - United States - History

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Relations United States

United States Relations Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The spy -- South Philadelphia -- A debt repaid -- The novice spy -- The evolution of a secret agent -- Semenov, Slack, and Brothman -- Dr. Klaus Fuchs -- The Los Alamos papers -- The postwar years -- The hunt for Raymond -- The fatal words -- pt. 2. The prisoner -- Conversion -- To make amends -- Prisoner 19312-NE -- State of mind -- The campaign for parole -- Return -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

A gripping account of the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal.