Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II

by Susan Williams

Book Overview

In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it

Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only supply of uniquely high-quality uranium ore -- the key ingredient for bomb -- could be found in the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610396545
• ISBN13: 9781610396547
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"