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Soviet atom bomb spy Klaus Fuchs arrested...
Soviet atom bomb spy Klaus Fuchs arrested...
Item # 720884
February 04, 1950
THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Feb. 4, 1950
* Klaus Fuchs arrested
* German atomic bomb scientist
* Russian - Soviet Union spy
* re. Manhattan Project
The front page has a five column headline: "RUSSIANS GOT H-BOMB DATA" including lead-in: "FBI Chief Tells Shocked Senate Group:" with subheads and two related photos. (see images)
Complete with 24 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.
AI notes: Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who had worked on the British and American atomic bomb projects during World War II, was arrested on February 2, 1950 in the United Kingdom for espionage. While employed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Fuchs had secretly passed highly classified information about the Manhattan Project and subsequent British nuclear research to the Soviet Union, including designs for the plutonium and uranium bombs, and details on the hydrogen bomb. His activities were uncovered through a combination of intelligence from the Venona project, which decrypted Soviet communications, and internal suspicions about leaks in Britain’s nuclear program. Fuchs confessed during interrogation, was tried in March 1950, and sentenced to 14 years in prison, of which he served nine before being released in 1959, after which he emigrated to East Germany, where he resumed his scientific career and became a prominent figure in nuclear research.
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