Atomic Spies, Part 2/2: Nuclear Families | WW2
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Citadel: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
Allen Nunn May was part of the Tube Alloys nuclear research program at Cambridge. He's discovered that fission products from a working reactor could be used as poisons. That terrifying knowledge planted the seed for Allen to pass on what information he knew to the Soviet Union. It seemed to him that if the Germans did ever use this weapon, they would be far more likely to use it against the Russians than against the West. And anyhow, they regarded the Russian people as subhuman and would have little hesitation in using such weapons against them.
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