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In 1945, when Truman and Stalin met at Potsdam, Stalin was oddly unimpressed by Truman's mention of "a new weapon of unusual destructive force."Why?THE ATOM BOMB SPIESIn 1949, though barely able to feed its people, the war-weary, technologically backward Soviet Union surprised the world by exploding its first atomic weapon.How?THE ATOM BOMB SPIESIn 1950, backed up by Soviet military might. tiny North Korea invaded South Korea.Why?THE ATOM BOMB SPIESEthel and Julius Rosenberg. David Greenglass. Morton Sobell. Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs, Allan Nunn May. Bruno Pontecorvo. Scientists, bureaucrats, family men, ordinary people- devoted communists. Members of large, well-organized networks of people that stole the secrets of the atom bomb, transmitted them to the Soviet Union, and brought the world to the brink of atomic holocaust. ISBN:9780176014629
