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Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2

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Fuchs and the British Atomic Bomb Project

The bomb's trigger device was being designed at Fort Halstedt, near Sabinerks in Kent. This was under the leadership of a British mathematician called William Penny. Fuchs would periodically commute to London to advise on the British Atomic Bomb Project. He probably knew more about atomic bomb and emerging hydrogen bomb than all but a small handful of people in the world.

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