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23 giu 2024 · When he was released in January 1941, Fuchs was head-hunted to work on Britain’s clandestine atomic bomb project – codenamed ‘Tube Alloys’.
28 giu 2024 · Fuchs’ actions significantly accelerated the Soviet Union’s own atomic bomb program. By providing them with critical information, he allowed them to bypass years of research and development, ultimately leading to the Soviet Union’s successful detonation of their first atomic bomb in 1949.
3 giorni fa · The most successful Soviet spy was Klaus Fuchs, a physicist and member of the British Mission who was intimately involved in work at Los Alamos on the design of the implosion bomb. His espionage activities were not identified until 1950, as a result of Venona project .
4 giorni fa · During Operation Hurricane, an atomic bomb was detonated on board the frigate HMS Plym anchored in a lagoon in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia on 3 October 1952. Britain thereby became the third country to develop and test nuclear weapons.
6 giorni fa · The most notable atomic spy was Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British citizen working with the large contingent of scientists sent over from the UK to assist at Site Y. Another was Theodore Hall, the youngest physicist at Los Alamos, who gave complete plans of the Fat Man implosion bomb to Russia.
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21 giu 2024 · Klaus Fuchs (Germany/ Soviet Union): "My motive was to help potential allies of Britain who had borne the brunt of fighting." Fuchs, a nuclear physicist, justified his betrayal of Western secrets by claiming it leveled the playing field against potential enemies during the Cold War.
4 giorni fa · The documentary "MI6 and the Atomic Spy" (2019) delves into the story of one of the most notorious double agents in history, Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born physicist, infiltrated the British atomic bomb research program during World War II. He passed critical information to the Soviet Union, shaping the Cold War's nuclear arms race.
