Code Warriors
NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
"A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList.
Contents:
The Russian Problem -- Unbreakable Codes -- Learning to Lie -- Digital Dawn -- Shooting Wars -- "An Old Mule Skinner" -- Brains Versus Bugs -- Days of Crisis -- Reinventing the Wheel -- Brute Force and Legerdemain.
Subjects:
United States. National Security Agency -- History.
Cryptography -- United States -- History.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States. National Security Agency -- History.
Cryptography -- United States -- History.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9780385352666
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Espionage Bud | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
GOV Espionage Bud | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.