Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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Trinity was the codename for the first successful test of an atomic bomb in New Mexico in 1945 by the United States. Enrico Fermi, one of the great scientists of the 20th century, who was working at Los Alamos, gave six lectures on the idea of developing a hydrogen bomb. The Soviets exploded their first atomic test in August 1949 and from the fallout we now know it was essentially a replica of the bomb that was tested in the Trinity test in Los Alamos in 1945. So that was all thanks to the information they had got from Fuchs.
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