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S2.8 The uncertainty principle

The Bomb

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This is season two of the bonepisode eight, the uncertainty principle. We are learning very little about klaus fook's atomic espionage for the soviots. But they are now privy to the affair he is having with ernest skinner,. The wife of his boss from the b b c world service. In war time, in washington, d c, the soveriet embassy had passed secret information about under cover agents back to moscow by a coded signals. American cryptographers spotted the random and sporadic duplications, making the uncrackable crackable. It was m i five that led m i five towards their target owes much to chance and to human error

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