--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The Manhattan project spy who gave the Ruskies the bomb was Klaus > > Fuchs, a german rocket scientist who worked on the V2, he was a spoil > > of war and subsequently excused from any war crime trials. I wonder > > if there is anyone in recent history with more to answer for and if > > he was aware of that. > > > > ************* > > You've mixed Fuchs up with somebody else evidently (Von Braun?) -- > Fuchs was a German Communist who first worked for the Brits on atomic > bomb research. When the decision was made that the U.S. was the only > power with the industrial capacity to build the bomb, Fuchs was sent to > Los Alamos, but the Brits either did not know or simply did not tell > the Americans that Fuchs was a Communist. > > Fuch's contributions were important (for which he did go to prison for > 9 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs ), but Ted Hall gave > the Russians a lot more of the engineering details (the basic physics > of the bomb was not as tough as the engineering problems) and escaped > prosecution completely: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hall > > I just read the book about Ted's spying, "Bombshell" a good read: > > http://tinyurl.com/329kzh > > There was another important guy, George Koval, a Russian mole (but born > in Iowa) who picked up a lot of useful info at the uranium enrichment > facilities: > > http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/12/america/koval.php?page=1 >
I don't know whether the info they passed on to the Soviets was crucial but the Rosenbergs' espionage activities also involved the bomb, I believe. Excellent HBO documentary on the Rosenbergs by their granddaughter: http://imdb.com/title/tt0388996/
