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

Michael D. Gordin (Author)
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

Print Book, English, 2009
First edition
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009