Trinity: the treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history
Frank Close will explore the murky waters of cold war espionage, physics,the bomb and the role of Cotswold housewife “Agent Sonya”. “Trinity” was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb’s metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.
Date:
3 November 2020, 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Venue:
Via Zoom
Speaker:
Professor Frank Close (Exeter College)
Organising department:
Physics (Central)
Organiser:
Helen Smith (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
helen.smith@physics.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Helen Smith (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frank-close-tickets-125509322763
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Helen Smith
