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One of the most brilliant scientists of his generation, pontecorvo was privy to many secrets: he had worked on the anglo-canadian arm of the manhattan project, and quietly discovered a way to find the uranium coveted by nuclear powersthree months later, bruno pontecorvo, a physicist at harwell, britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a tracesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle the memo landed on kim philby's desk in washington, dc, in julyyet when he disappeared mi5 insisted he was not a threatwhen he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the iron curtainnow, based on unprecedented access to archives, letters, surviving family members and scientists, award-winning writer and physics professor frank close exposes the truth about a man irrevocably marked by the advent of the atomic age and the cold war
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