The true life story of Dudley Buck, an American Cold War hero whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.
Iain Dey is a Sunday Times correspondent who was named UK Business
Journalist of the Year in 2010. This is his first full-length
book.
Douglas Buck is the son of Dudley Buck, and has had privileged
access to his father's diaries, associates and papers.
An incredibly thorough but fully accessible deep dive into the cold
war battle for computer supremacy that details the increasingly
relevant - and increasingly eerie- relationship between geopolitics
and technology
*Jesse Eisenberg, laywright, New Yorker contributor and
Oscar-nominated actor who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social
Network.*
For me, Dudley Buck remains one of the most endlessly fascinating -
and bogglingly creative - engineers of the 1950s. If one looks for
him, he can be found in many of the most important projects and
contexts developing electronics and computing in service of the
early Cold War. I thought I knew a lot about Buck, but the Cryotron
Files held many surprises: Deuterium for computer memory?!
Superconducting ICBM gyroscopes?! Spy satellites?! Secret meetings
with German computer-pioneer Zuse?! While I cannot vouch for
everything in the Cryotron Files and differ from some of its
suggestions, Iain Dey has woven very partial and confusing records
into a real story that will make every reader stop and wonder what
Dudley Buck could have dreamed and realized had he survived 1959,
his 32nd year.
*David C. Brock, Director, Center for Software History, Computer
History Museum*
Dey takes on the fascinating- and disturbing story of Cold War
computing pioneer Dudley Buck.
*The Sunday Times*
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