Bomb blog post #3

I have not finished the book yet but I am pretty close. The Americans found out that the Germans were at least two years behind them with the bomb project. At this point during the war, Germany was on the retreat throughout Europe and the war was drawing to a close. The U.S. tested their first plutonium bomb in New Mexico at a site named Trinity. Early in the morning on April 16 there was an explosion which had the equivalent force of 20,000 pounds of TNT. It was a success. The sound of the explosion could be heard from 20 miles away.

The news of the successful test at Trinity infuriated the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. He demanded that he get a bomb at once. The KGB had had little success with the Americans, until they met Klaus Fuchs, pronounced like fooks. He was a British Physicist and a soviet supporter. The Manhattan project needed new scientists so the British sent their scientists. Klaus Fuchs was included in the package.

The KGB was ecstatic to hear that they finally had a spy in the Manhattan Project. Joseph Stalin wasn't as pleased. He said he wanted results and if results weren't provided, heads were going to start rolling. The Russians used the American plans give to them by Klaus Fuchs to finally build their own bomb. The war was won and a new one began, the Cold War. The U.S. was surprised and infuriated by the news of the Russians successful test.

Bomb blog post #2

I am finding this book extremely interesting which is increasing the speed at which I read through the pages, I am more than half way through the book, and so far, it appears as if the Germans are winning the race to the Atomic Bomb. Leslie Groves was put in charge of the Manhattan project by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Groves then put Dr. Robert Oppenheimer in charge of Los Alamos, the city in New Mexico where the Atomic Bomb was being built. The United States was making great progress, but they didn't know how far the Germans were with the Bomb project so they had to assume that the Germans were ahead.

Meanwhile, the Russians were also trying to build their own Atomic Bomb, but they were invaded by the Nazis, which temporarily thwarted their efforts to build an Atomic Bomb. With all of their resources being spent on the war against the Nazis, the Russians had little to no supplies and resources to attempt to make a bomb. So with no other option, they decided to try and steal the plans to the Atomic Bomb.

That is where Harry Gold comes in. He was an American born communist supporter, that really didn't care about the war or its outcome. But when his buddy that was also a communist supporter told him about a new line of work that payed very well, he couldn't help but find out what it was. IT turned out to be spying, something that Harry had no interest in, but when they said to himthat even being at this secret meeting with the KGB was already a criminal offense, he thought it would be easy, so he went for it. As it turned out to be, he was actually pretty good at it.