
Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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The History of Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was working on a project which could change the nature of warfare. Stalin had been in a non-aggression pact with Hitler until that broke down, and Hitler foolishly invaded Russia. Winston Churchill said we will give every help we can to your Soviet colleagues so he did. And that I think is when he began spying. He passed on six sheets of data to Kramer, which were then transmitted back to Moscow in encrypted code. These codes were intercepted, but they were not possible to crack them.
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