Author:Frank Close
'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.
Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, only to be betrayed. It describes in unprecedented detail how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, both in the UK and after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying.
Fuchs returned to Britain in August 1946 still undetected and became central to the UK's independent effort to develop nuclear weapons. Close describes the febrile atmosphere at Harwell, the nuclear physics laboratory near Oxford, where many of the key players were quartered, and the charged relationships which developed there. He uncovers fresh evidence about the role of the crucial VENONA signals decryptions, and shows how, despite mistakes made by both MI5 and the FBI, the net gradually closed around Fuchs, building an intolerable pressure which finally cracked him.
The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear device in August 1949, far earlier than the US or UK expected. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, 'Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations'. This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their centre.
A masterclass in thriller writing, it bears comparison with the most gripping spy sagas of Ben Macintyre
—— Graham Farmelo , GuardianA brilliant new biography ... The book introduces crucial changes to ... the official version of events.
—— Bryan Appleyard , Sunday TimesEngrossing, brilliantly researched ... The scale of Fuchs's spying was astounding, as were its consequences
—— Jay Elwes , SpectatorHe has delved into the archives to produce a remarkable story ... meticulous but highly readable
—— Manjit Kumar , The TimesHe has absolutely mastered the ability to convey not only the substance of the science but the real excitement and passion that scientists are feeling when they are doing it
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—— Felicity Cloake , Literary ReviewA hugely enjoyable and critical look at common food myths... A worthy successor to his previous best seller, The Diet Myth.
—— Michael MosleyThe bestselling author of The Diet Myth, Tim Spector has built a reputation as a culinary demystifier. In his latest, Spoon-Fed...he dishes up a...correction to the nonsense routinely peddled by self-appointed diet gurus.
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—— Jonathan Wolff, author of An Introduction to Moral PhilosophyYou have zero privacy anyway. Get over it', Scott McNealy once said to reporters. This book is a thoughtful response to the claim of Sun Microsystem's co-founder. It shows that we still have privacy to lose and why we should protect privacy for ourselves and for others. Engagingly written, clear and admirably brief, Véliz shows how we ended up with societies built around the buying and selling of personal data; why this is bad personally and politically; and what we can do to change things. A fantastic little book.
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—— Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in MindAbsolutely beautiful writing, Christie Watson captures both the intense joy and searing heartbreak of love
—— Jo SwinsonA salute to the profession, the book is also a mediation on motherhood
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—— Woman's OwnA powerful memoir
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—— Evening StandardBrilliant and moving
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—— Daily MailHodge's beautiful memoir is both a devastating, grief-fuelled account of her sister's death and a redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning
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—— Mail on SundaySearing. A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling. Her prose is rich with detail, combining a sharp sense of place with escalating drama. A triumph
—— iThe most moving, most exquisitely written book about addiction, grief, loss and coming to terms with trauma even decades on. One that you will be thinking about, and remember long after finishing
—— Sophia Money-Coutts , QuintessentiallyOne of the most beautiful memoirs I've ever read. This story will say with you long after you put the book down
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