Spies of War: The A-Bomb Spies

Dr.Docs' Take

The atomic spies again from a slightly different angle, the ring that handed Moscow the West's ultimate secret in the late 1940s. I never get tired of the nuclear espionage story, because it is that rare conspiracy where we know it worked, we mostly know who, and we still argue bitterly about the how. Tense, well-sourced Cold War intrigue. The stakes could not have been higher, and the leak could not have been closer to home.

August 29th, 1949: four years after the U.S. drops the first atomic bomb, the Soviets drop one. No one expected it so soon. Behind the scenes of this major event of the cold war, the Soviets developed one of the biggest networks of moles of the century. In this episode of “Spies of War”, you will discover how and why brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb to the sworn enemy of the U.S, and how U.S. counter-intelligence services cracked their codes to expose the leaks.

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