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Spies in the Congo America's atomic mission in World War II /

"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'...

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Main Author: Williams, A. Susan,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, [2016]
Physical Description: xxiv, 369 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
United States. -- Office of Strategic Services -- History.
United States. -- Office of Strategic Services -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Uranium mines and mining -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Espionage, American -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Relations -- United States.

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