The Nuclear Spies : : America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin / / Vince Houghton.
Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the...
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Houghton, Vince, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Nuclear Spies : America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin / Vince Houghton. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Principal Uncertainty -- 1. A Reasonable Fear: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the German Nuclear Program -- 2. Making Something out of Nothing: The Creation of U.S. Nuclear Intelligence -- 3. Alsos: The Mission to Solve the Mystery of the German Bomb -- 4. Transitions: From the German Threat to the Soviet Menace -- 5. Regression: The Postwar Devolution of U.S. Nuclear Intelligence -- 6. Whistling in the Dark: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the Soviet Nuclear Program -- Conclusion: Credit Where Credit Is Due -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?Houghton's delightful retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a new look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As Houghton shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union's scientists, its research facilities and laboratories, and its educational system became a key consideration for the CIA in assessing the threat level of its most potent foe. Sadly, for the CIA scientific intelligence was extremely difficult to do well. For when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949, no one in the American intelligence services saw it coming. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Cold War Military intelligence. Espionage, American Germany History 20th century. Espionage, American Soviet Union History. Military intelligence United States History 20th century. Nuclear weapons information History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence. Cold War History. Political Science & Political History. U.S. History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage. bisacsh Intelligence, Espionage, Nuclear, Atomic, Heisenberg, Manhattan Project. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110651980 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics, Law & Social Sciences 2019 ENG 9783110610130 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2019 9783110606485 ZDB-23-DSW print 9781501739590 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501739606?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501739606 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501739606/original |
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