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Klaus Fuchs helped create the atomic bomb, then handed it to the enemy. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

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Chapters:
0:00 The Most Dangerous Spy in History
0:22 Early Life in Nazi Germany
01:08 A New Life in England
01:31 The Discovery of Nuclear Fission
03:09 Contact with the Soviets
03:44 Betraying His New Family
05:18 Joining the Manhattan Project
6:01 Designing the Plutonium Bomb
6:57 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Horror
7:22 The Cold War Begins
8:14 First Suspicions
9:49 The Soviet Bomb
10:22 Cracked by VENONA
11:14 The Interrogations
12:35 A Moment of Weakness
12:52 The Confession
13:47 Trial and Sentence
14:36 Fallout in Washington
15:27 Release and Exile
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Image of Genia and Rudolf Peierls: Photograph by Francis Simon, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Simon Collection
Warneford Hospital: Part of Warneford Hospital by Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Brixton Prison: By David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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