Trinity

Heavy on detail and meticulously researched, some may get weighed down in the detail about nuclear physics and atomic reactions, but they are key to understanding the role Karl Fuchs played in his work and his betrayal. There's an ominous sense in the destructive power being played with by young men......more

Physicist Frank Close has a kind of dual writing life - which is ideal given he's here writing about the dual life of a German nuclear physicist who was also a Russian spy. Many of Close's books give plenty of detail on a specific aspect of physics - my favourite is his compact title Neutrino, a gre......more

If you like the books by Ben Macintyre about the real life activities of 20th century spies, you will love this. Frank Close is a nuclear scientist and author of several excellent books of popular science, so who better to tell the story of Klaus Fuchs, the man who gave the secrets of the atom bomb......more

Somehow I just couldn't get into this book. Maybe it was because I was lost in the technical aspects and didn't fully appreciate what Fuchs knew and how much harm his spying did. Actually the back story is that his objective in passing on the information was to ensure mutually assured destruction, a......more

Excellent book but a bit too detailed A very important book. Extremely well documented but too detailed for the general reader. Fuchs was idealistic but not realistic.......more