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Title:
Red cloud at dawn : Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly
Author:
Gordin, Michael D.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2009
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2009.
Physical Description:
xii, 402 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780374256821
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.
Language:
English
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