Miracle-armed. How the Americans were looking for nuclear secrets of the Third Reich. Gudsmith S.

Shortly before the explosions of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US government and military circles, fearing that Germany could get ahead of them in the creation and use of atomic weapons, sent an intelligence group with the conditional name “Mission Alsos” to the European theater. The task of this group was the collection of information, the search and seizure of documentation, equipment, materials and personnel related to the German “uranium project”.

The mission included, along with military intelligence officers, scientists of various specialties.

The book “Mission Alsos” proposed to the attention of the reader was written by the scientific director of this mission Samuel Gudsmith and was published in 1946 - immediately after the events described in it. The author lively talks about the activities of the mission, gives genuine documents, names and places of events, dates, interesting household details.