| Hardback book with Dust Jacket by Robert Chadwell Williams Copyright © 1987 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College " The 1950 espionage case of Klaus Fuchs, who betrayed British and American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, touched off a witch hunt in the United States that led to the capture of the Rosenbergs and many other alleged spies.
The case fueled the fires of national concern over communism, Soviet espionage, internal subversion, and security in the nuclear age.
Robert C. Williams has tenaciously retraced Fuch's trail from Nazi Germany to Britain, Canada, New Mexico, and finally to East Germany, where Fuch now lives the life of a successful retired nuclear physicist.
In his search Williams has not only uncovered Fuch's personal story but has also established that his espionage was part of a much larger Soviet effort to penetrate and control British intelligence. " " Klaus Fuchs had access to the most highly classified secrets of the wartime Manhattan Project.
Cleared eight times by British security, and consequently accepted without investigation by the Americans, Fuchs worked in a hermetic world of security through secrecy - a world whose rules he publicly defended and privately betrayed.
He played his role carefully for almost a decade, passing classified information to Soviet intelligence through a German communist espionage ring that operated under the very nose of the British government during and after the war.
As part of the secret Anglo-American bomb project, he brought to Britain - and gave to Russia - technological know-how that helped both countries develop their own A-bombs. " " This intriguing full-length portrait of Klaus Fuchs and his case, based on part on newly available American and British archives on the subject, is an exciting find for general readers in the history of science, espionage, World War II, and the Cold War.
It will also be of high professional interest to historians and physicists. " Contents include: " 1. Secrets 2. Inner Light, Party Line: The Red Foxes of Kiel 3. Keep an Eye on Them: German Communist Refugees 4. From Internment to Intelligence 5. The Girl from Banbury 6. Gold in Manhattan 7. Los Alamos: The Plutonium Connection 8. Harwell: Building the British Bomb 9. The Super and the Soviet Code 10. Confession and Trial 11. A Serious Mistake 12. Science, Secrecy, and Security 13. The Return Home Appendix A. Klaus Fuchs's Confession to William Skardon Appendix B. Klaus Fuchs's Confession to Michael Perrin Appendix C. Harry Gold's Statements to the FBI Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index " The book is in very good condition with minor wear and tear to the edges of the dust jacket.
No torn or ripped pages.
There is a stamped message on the title page.
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