Spies in the Congo
Subtitle: America's atomic mission in World War II
By: Susan Williams
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781610396547
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services; United States; Equipment and supplies; World War, 1939-1945; Uranium mines and mining; Atomic bomb; History
Description: "In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomband to make sure nobody saw them doing it,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-327), filmography (page 329), and index.
Table of contents: title: Letter from Albert Einstein to President Roosevelt, 2 August 1939; title: The Manhattan Project and Shinkolobwe; title: TETON; title: CRISP; title: CRUMB; title: Chief of Station, Congo; title: 'Attention! Bloc radioactif!'; title: ANGELLA; title: 'Born secret'; title: The mission; title: The British opposites; title: FLARE; title: The cutout; title: LOCUST; title: 'Hotbed of spies'; title: Framed; title: Collaborating with the Nazis; title: A dead shot; title: Stehli the detective; title: 'One minute to midnight'; title: Hiroshima; title: Atomic spies; title: The missing link.