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HALF LIFE
THE DIVIDED LIFE OF BRUNO PONTECORVO, PHYSICIST OR SPY |
| By: |
Frank Close |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£34.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780747462 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780747460 |
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| Publisher: |
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2015 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
A true-life tale of nuclear secrets, Soviet spies and MI5 |
| Synopsis: |
The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, Pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the Anglo-Canadian arm of the Manhattan Project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powers. Yet when he disappeared MI5 insisted he was not a threat. Now, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor Frank Close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the Cold War. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oneworld Publications |
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