{"product_id":"nuclear-spies-americas-atomic-intelligence-operation-against-hitler-and-stalin-9781501739590","title":"Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoughton'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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nuclear Spies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e--John C. Browne, Los Alamos National Laboratory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501739590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 8.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/12\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vince Houghton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654924267676,"sku":"9781501739590","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_03bd3a05-9e1a-4610-be18-1d67ca4ea217.jpg?v=1603884396","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/nuclear-spies-americas-atomic-intelligence-operation-against-hitler-and-stalin-9781501739590","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}