A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies
and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.
On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page
article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40
years. The spy who came in from the Co-op." Melita Norwood, the
last of the atomic spies, hadfinally been run to ground, but at 87
she was deemed too old to prosecute. Her crime: the shortening of
the Soviet Union's atomic bomb project by up to 5 years. At a time
when the world faces fresh dilemmas caused by the proliferation of
nuclear weapons, this is the remarkable story of a much earlier
drama. After the atomic bomb strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
August 1945, British and American intelligence estimated the
earliest date for the production of a Soviet bomb to be 1953. In
fact, the Soviet Union went nuclear in 1948, and tested an atomic
bomb in 1949. The Soviet Union's bomb coincided with the onset of
The Cold War, and threatened humankind with extinction. Melita
Norwood was a member of one of those communist spy networks in
America and Britain, who by guaranteeing those weapons of mass
destruction threw down a challenge to America as sole superpower in
the post-Second World War era. This fascinating book sets her in
the context of the times, and uses her as a prism and focus through
which to investigate the whole milieu. Dr DAVID BURKE is a
Supervisor for the Rise of the Secret World: Governments and
Intelligence Communities since 1900 at the University of Cambridge.
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