Dr. Sarah Valentine book Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb. Black Women pre-computer translations of Russian atomic secrets and Soviet nuclear threats after World War II. Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dec...
Joining the NSA's hidden team of Black codebreakers in 1950In “Decoding the Devil,” a woman named Iris joins a hidden NSA unit of Black codebreakers decoding Soviet messages during the Cold War.www.sciencefriday.com