The Cryotron Files: How the Inventor of the Microchip Put Himself In the KGB's Sights by Gerri Chanel,Douglas Buck

Dudley Buck was one of America's leading computer scientists, the inventor of the superconducting chip Cryotron that promised ever-smaller computers, and coding systems vital to the space race. In May 1959, after top Soviet scientists visited his lab, he died suddenly. Co-written by his son, this book uses recently declassified documents and Buck€s own archive to explain the implications of his discoveries and question his cause of death.