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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 powerssee 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 threatnow, 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 warthree months later, bruno pontecorvo, a physicist at harwell, britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a tracewhen he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of the iron curtain
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