Table of Contents
Preface - Cover-Up: 'When the Righteous Sin' 1
Part 1 Incognito: Klaus Fuchs and Niels Bohr
1 Zigzag 11
Part 2 The Overestimate of the Germans
2 The Taste of Fear: The Menace of Fission 25
3 The Beginnings of a 'Strategic Game' 38
4 Struggles over Secrecy 46
5 The Midwives 69
6 The Strategic Sabotage of Heavy Water 75
7 The First Glimpses of Germany's Nuclear Secrets 81
8 The 'Crown Jewel' of Secrets 93
9 Intelligence Blackout: The Fatal Mistake 105
10 Fall Out 122
11 'Hard Evidence' of Soviet Spying 139
12 The Secret Agenda of General Groves 153
13 The Bohr Scare 184
14 A Vital Clue Vanishes 190
15 'Don't Bother Me With Your Scruples': The Loss of Innocence 213
16 The Claws of the Bear 223
Part 3 Lives in Parallel: Niels Bohr and Klaus Fuchs
17 The Little Fox 247
18 Lunch in the Supreme Court 269
19 'The Mission He Had Been Waiting For' 274
20 A President 'Eager for Help' 282
21 The Letter from Moscow 287
22 The Prime Minister's Mistake 295
23 The Bomb in Trouble: Mistakes at Los Alamos 303
24 The President's Mistake 309
Part 4 The Underestimate of the Russians
25 Bohr and Stalin 317
26 Fuchs: Shining in the Shadows 340
Acknowledgements 367
Notes 371
Index 405