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The Manhattan Project

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

The Secret of Nuclear Fission

Groves was determined to keep it secret, a top secret. He managed it in a lot of ways, but it leaked one way another. It was being breached by individuals like klaus fuks and other spies. Fuk would get out from los alamos on a couple of occasions, down to santa fe, pass the information to his contact. The contact then passed it on to somebody who took it to the russian embassy. And then the r Russian embassy had to code it up and transmit the information to moscow. If the coding had been done properly, it would have been totally and utterly uncrackable.

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