The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program
The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program: The History and Legacy of the USSR’s Efforts to Build the Atomic Bomb , Charles River Editors Another freebie with an interesting title, so I downloaded it. Not a terrible read, but bored me a little, so I took over a month to read it, because I started playing with my phone during the morning commute instead of reading. The book runs from the Germans in the 1930s through the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Russia got most of its knowledge through espionage, but that isn't to say that they didn't have scientists of their own working on nuclear weapons. It's just that they came late to the game. Not much for me to say, except that I recognized some of the Soviet names from history (both reading and living it), while others were new to me. The book had pages of links to references in the back, so you can check out its sources. I couldn't tell from the Amazon page what year this was published. I'm guessin...