Five Spies Who Leaked Explosive Nuclear Secrets
And here’s how they were caught.
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9 min readOct 31, 2022
The Soviet Union, despite being an ally during WWII, conducted a massive espionage operation in the 1940s to learn the military and defense secrets of the United States and Britain. An agent in the British civil service alerted the Soviets within days of Britain’s 1941 intention to secretly begin atomic bomb research.
