Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb Jen Williams By the late 1970s

By the late 1970s

Then — 1957 Havana

I know she’s perfect

would I have the courage to do this for what once was a total stranger

and stock survival kits to prepare for what may come

Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb Jen Williams By the late 1970sAs groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalins atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War. Facing the global threat of a rising Communist world power in the aftermath of World War II, the U. S. employed hundreds of Black Americans to speed read Russian communications and gather essential