The Spy Who Changed the World by Mike Rossiter

The physicist who handed Stalin the atomic bomb

Good condition – sticker residue on cover, light corner wear

Klaus Fuchs was a brilliant German-born physicist who worked at the heart of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret Allied programme that built the first atomic bomb. He was also a committed Communist, secretly passing the West's most closely guarded scientific and military secrets to Soviet intelligence throughout the Second World War and beyond. Mike Rossiter traces Fuchs's extraordinary double life, from his escape from Nazi Germany and rise within Britain's scientific establishment to the meetings with Soviet handlers that helped accelerate the USSR's own nuclear programme by years, and the eventual unravelling of his cover. Described as a story a thriller writer would struggle to invent, The Spy Who Changed the World is a gripping true account of the scientist whose betrayal helped shape the nuclear balance of the entire Cold War.