TY  - GEN
T1  - Stalin and the bomb : the Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956
A1  - Holloway, David, 1943-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm47011416
AB  - In engrossing detail, David Holloway tells us how Stalin launched a crash atomic program only after the Americans bombed Hiroshima and showed that the bomb could be built; how the information handed over to the Soviets by Klaus Fuchs helped in the creation of their bomb; how the scientific intelligentsia, which included such men as Andrei Sakharov, interacted with the police apparatus headed by the suspicious and menacing Lavrentii Beria; what steps Stalin took to counter U.S. atomic diplomacy; how the nuclear project saved Soviet physics and enabled it to survive as an island of intellectual autonomy in a totalitarian society; and what happened when, after Stalin's death, Soviet scientists argued that a nuclear war might extinguish all life on earth.
AB  - This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central but hitherto secret element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program - today environmental damage, a network of secret cities, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons.
OP  - 464
CN  - UA770 .H632 1994eb
SN  - 0585361541
SN  - 9780585361543
SN  - 9780300164459
SN  - 0300164459
SN  - 0300060564
SN  - 9780300060560
KW  - Nuclear weapons : Government policy : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Nuclear energy : Research : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Science and state : Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Soviet Union : Foreign relations.
KW  - Armes nucléaires : Politique gouvernementale : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - Énergie nucléaire : Recherche : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - Politique scientifique et technique : URSS : Histoire.
KW  - URSS : Relations extérieures.
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Military Science.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : Other.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Nuclear energy : Research
KW  - Nuclear weapons : Government policy
KW  - Science and state
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Atomare Rüstung
KW  - Kernenergie
KW  - Kernwaffe
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - Bewapeningswedloop.
KW  - Kernwapens.
KW  - Wapenproductie.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -