Red Cloud at Dawn Truman, Stalin, and the End

On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States. Michael D. Gordin folows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race.

Michael D. Gordin is an associate professor of the history of science at Princeton University. He is the author of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.

List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction What Happened at Potsdam	p. 3
Atomic Monopoly	p. 25
How Much Time Do We Have?	p. 63
Larger Than Enormoz	p. 89
First Lightning	p. 133
Making Vermont	p. 179
Dramatizing the Situation	p. 214
The Year of Joe	p. 247
Epilogue Traces and Tailings	p. 285
Notes	p. 307
Selected Sources	p. 377
Acknowledgments	p. 381
Index	p. 383
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Red Cloud at Dawn Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

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