This is a very good novel set in the Urals in the fall of 1961. The Soviet Union's scientists were days away from exploding a thermonuclear game changer. Under the supervision of Andrei Sakharov, they actually dialed down the magnitude of the explosion by changing the tamper from uranium to lead. In the novel, the change of the tamper is the event behind a murder and an investigation by Moscow's Maj. Alexander Vasin from the KGB. I believe it is the first in a series. The author is a historian, who has apparently turned to writing a thriller and has done it very well.
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