Introduction: The Principal Uncertainty
1. A Reasonable Fear: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the German
Nuclear Program
2. Making Something out of Nothing: The Creation of U.S. Nuclear
Intelligence
3. Alsos: The Mission to Solve the Mystery of the German Bomb
4. Transitions: From the German Threat to the Soviet Menace
5. Regression: The Postwar Devolution of U.S. Nuclear
Intelligence
6. Whistling in the Dark: The U.S. (Mis)Perception of the Soviet
Nuclear Program
Conclusion: Credit Where Credit Is Due
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Vince Houghton is Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. He taught courses in Cold War history and intelligence history at the University of Maryland and is the host and creative director of Spycast, the Spy Museum's popular podcast. His work has been published widely in such media as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, Vanity Fair, and many others.
In this neat, enthralling study, Houghton wonders why this
successful intelligence operation was followed by the failure to
anticipate the first Soviet nuclear test in August 1949.
*Foreign Affairs*
A great read: Concise, fact-packed, laden with fascinating
anecdotes, and chock full of insights... This book is for everyone,
intelligence expert and layperson alike. A page turner.
*The Cipher Brief*
As Vince Houghton reports in this beautifully written and
well-researched history, the American scientific and strategic
community believed they were in a race with Nazi physics, and they
had a nagging fear that they might not win that race. The Nuclear
Spies explores the administrative, scientific, logistical, and
intelligence aspects of the effort to collect, analyze, and
disseminate information about a weapon that at the time was neither
fully understood nor developed.
*International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence*
Vince Houghton has written an engaging and well-researched book
focusing on the U.S. effort to gather scientific intelligence on
the German atomic bomb program during World War II. Houghton
expands his scope beyond the war to demonstrate that the scientific
and atomic intelligence bureaucracy designed during the war
withered in the immediate postwar era.
*The Journal of American History*
[A] useful introduction to the field of scientific
intelligence.
*Choice*
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