AFIO Now Presents Sarah Valentine
In this episode, Sarah Valentine, PhD discusses her book “Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb”. The book tells the true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War. It pays tribute to these little-known Black cryptologists’ critical contributions to national security during the civil rights era and offers a fresh perspective on the Cold War and American heroes of color.
Interview date Thursday, 30 July 2026. Interview…
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