About the Program
Michael Gordin, history of science professor at Princeton University, recounts the Soviet Union's first atomic test bomb, "First Lightning" that detonated on August 29, 1949. Mr. Gordin relays that the test brought an end to sole American ownership of nuclear weapons and ushered in a new wave of foreign policy machinations and espionage between the United States and the Soviet Union. Michael Gordin discusses his book at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey.