How The Soviets STOLE America’s Nuclear Secrets

Описание: In 1945, the United States built the most devastating weapon in human history — the atomic bomb. It cost $2 billion, took three years, and required the greatest scientific minds on Earth. It was the most closely guarded secret in American history. But what no one realized was that the secret was already gone — stolen piece by piece by spies hiding inside the most secure facilities in the country.

This is the full story of how the Soviet Union pulled off the greatest espionage operation of the 20th century. From Klaus Fuchs, the quiet physicist who handed over the complete blueprint of the plutonium bomb, to Theodore Hall, the 19-year-old Harvard prodigy who walked into a Communist Party office and changed history — this documentary reveals the shocking network of spies who operated inside the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

Learn how Operation Enormoz funneled America's most classified nuclear secrets to Moscow. How the Jell-O box signal connected Soviet couriers to agents inside the bomb program. How Lona Cohen smuggled stolen documents past security in a tissue box. And how a codebreaking project called VENONA finally exposed the betrayal — but too late to stop it.

By August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb — a near-exact copy of America's Fat Man — years ahead of every Western prediction. The nuclear arms race had begun. The world would never be the same.

Featuring the stories of Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, George Koval, Igor Kurchatov, J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, and Joseph Stalin.

Based on declassified documents, the VENONA transcripts, the Alexander Vassiliev notebooks, and the works of Richard Rhodes, David Holloway, Kai Bird, and other leading historians.

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