{"product_id":"fallout-9781471164514","title":"Fallout","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween December 1943 and August 1944, \u003cb\u003eFranklin Delano Roosevelt\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWinston Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e ignited the \u003cb\u003eCold War\u003c\/b\u003e, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an \u003cb\u003eatomic bomb\u003c\/b\u003e and excluding their Russian allies. \u003cb\u003ePeter Watson\u003c\/b\u003e tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomic physicists tried to counter this in two very different ways. While \u003cb\u003eNiels Bohr\u003c\/b\u003e sought to convince President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to share their nuclear knowledge with \u003cb\u003eJoseph Stalin\u003c\/b\u003e, nuclear scientist \u003cb\u003eKlaus Fuchs\u003c\/b\u003e, a German Communist emigre to Britain, was leaking atomic secrets to the Soviets in a rival attempt to ensure parity between the superpowers. Neither succeeded in preventing the \u003cb\u003eWorld War II\u003c\/b\u003e allies from unleashing the atom bomb on the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFallout \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eproves that the atomic bomb was not needed, and was made as a result of a series of flawed decisions. The Americans did not tel","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408688488791,"sku":"9781471164514","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fallout-9781471164514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}