Atomic Spies, Part 1/2: The Klaus Fuchs Effect | WW2
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The Story of Fuchs
For two years, Fuchs was able to carry out some of the most extensive espionage in history. He always claimed and gave the impression he felt that this knowledge should not be retained by a single power. Igor Kortutov, leader of the Soviet bomb program, chose the plutonium implosion bomb as his primary goal. Such a bomb would be dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the Americans just a few months later.
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