Bishwasghatakotar Pore (Bengali Version)

• Writer: Shovon Chakraborty

• No. of Pages: 400

• ISBN: 9788196377083

• Genre: Essays

• Format: Hardcover

• Publisher: Boi Bondhu

Description of the Book:
Klaus Fuchs stole the atomic bomb formula and smuggled it to the Soviet Union. But was that the whole story? Did no one else help? Did the Soviet state or scientists do full justice to science with the stolen formula? Was Fuchs really the hero that various stories portray him as? If he was a hero, then who is the real villain? What exactly happened on the night of April 26, 1986?

This story explores atomic, biological, and chemical weapons, the Reich Bank’s gold reserve, American formulas, German and Czechoslovakian uranium, secret service Russian scientists, the slipping German scientist, and the story of a U.S. spy plane entering Soviet territory among space engineers. Hidden within its pages is a tale of nuclear disaster, Soviet economics, bonuses, secret surveillance, the KGB, the extreme pressures in the workplace, nuclear physics and engineering, the omnipotent Communist Party, and, of course, Stalin’s legacy.

The infamous RBMK-1000 reactor, the name-changing Soviet secret service, the competing U.S. spy agency CIA, all combine to drag the Soviet Union into an inevitable fate. In search of this forbidden history, two young men from Manhattan are drawn toward the lost city of Chernobyl. This book blends a thrilling mystery with an effortlessly woven historical narrative. Not fiction, but a true and hidden history that was long buried and concealed.