Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network

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Lewis delves into some of the most extraordinarily inventive and Machiavellian innovations at the SOE, and their related research and training schools, whereby the enemy were tricked, deceived, framed, blackmailed and double and triple-crossed, all in the name of stopping the Reich from getting the bomb. By Damien Lewis 'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival. This atomic glass has come to be known as Trinitite. As Churchill commented: 'The actual facts in many cases were equal to the most fantastic inventions of romance and melodrama.