Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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The Letter to Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs worked as an assistant to world-renowned German mathematical physicist, and one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, Max Born. In May 1941, something happened that would prove to be a fork in the road for Fuchs. Piles wrote to Fuchs inviting him to Birmingham for theoretical work,. involving mathematical problems of considerable complexity which he could not disclose. The first great irony of this whole story then happens, because Fuchs is now about to be enrolled in this top-secret project. And to do that, he has got to be vetted. Well, they said, who sent this letter? It was the Gestapo, and because it was the Gestap, they
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