Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly

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Title:

Author:

Gordin, Michael D.

Personal Author:

Gordin, Michael D.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2009]

Physical Description:

xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

With the use of newly opened archives, "Red Cloud at Dawn" focuses on the extraordinary story of First Lightning--the first Soviet test bomb detonated in 1949--to provide a fresh understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race, as well as the all-too-urgent problem of proliferation.

Language:

English

Contents:

Atomic monopoly -- How much time do we have? -- Larger than Enormoz -- First lightning -- Making Vermont -- Dramatizing the situation -- The year of Joe.

Personal Subject:

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.

Subject Term:

Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.

Arms race -- History -- 20th century.

World politics -- 1945-1955.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.