Codes and ciphers are built for protecting secrets. The National Security Agency was built to break them. How did the NSA come to be and how did its cryptanalysts crack some of the most complicated codes of the twentieth century?

Stephen Budiansky, author of Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union, will trace the history of the agency and its remarkable successes and destructive failures during the Cold War when the USSR was the ultimate target.

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