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Recruited into the super-secret Manhattan Project while still a teenager, albeit a teenager who had already passed through Harvard, Ted Hall was unquestionably brilliant. But Hall, now an elderly physicist living in England, claims he was also very naive. While working to develop the atomic bomb for the United States, Hall approached Soviet intelligence and proceeded to pass along secrets. His breaches of security, while unknown outside intelligence circles until recently, dwarf the work of better-known Cold War operatives. And what's perhaps most startling is his motivation for giving the Soviets the secrets of the American bomb. Relying on recently declassified materials and interviews with the participants in the plot, Bombshell reads like an inventive spy novel, yet it's entirely true. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Klaus Fuchs might have been the most famous Communist atomic spy from World War II, but young Theodore Alvin Hall also passed on scientific information from the Los Alamos laboratory, which helped the Russians explode their first atomic bomb in 1949. The U.S. intelligence community suspected Hall's involvement after breaking Soviet codes, but little about Hall's secret activities has been made public until now. Moscow-based journalists Albright and Kuntsel (Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron, LJ 11/1/90) base this readable account on interviews with Hall himself and others involved, supplemented by newly declassified materials in Moscow and Washington. They focus primarily on the war years and Hall's attempts to build a normal life in the 1950s. The authors do an especially good job of conveying the fear of capture that Hall and other spies experienced daily, and they provide lots of interesting details about tradecraft (how you actually commit espionage). Suitable for public and academic espionage collections.?Daniel K. Blewett, Loyola Univ. Lib., Chicago.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Recruited into the super-secret Manhattan Project while still a teenager, albeit a teenager who had already passed through Harvard, Ted Hall was unquestionably brilliant. But Hall, now an elderly physicist living in England, claims he was also very naive. While working to develop the atomic bomb for the United States, Hall approached Soviet intelligence and proceeded to pass along secrets. His breaches of security, while unknown outside intelligence circles until recently, dwarf the work of better-known Cold War operatives. And what's perhaps most startling is his motivation for giving the Soviets the secrets of the American bomb. Relying on recently declassified materials and interviews with the participants in the plot, Bombshell reads like an inventive spy novel, yet it's entirely true. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Klaus Fuchs might have been the most famous Communist atomic spy from World War II, but young Theodore Alvin Hall also passed on scientific information from the Los Alamos laboratory, which helped the Russians explode their first atomic bomb in 1949. The U.S. intelligence community suspected Hall's involvement after breaking Soviet codes, but little about Hall's secret activities has been made public until now. Moscow-based journalists Albright and Kuntsel (Their Promised Land: Arab and Jew in History's Cauldron, LJ 11/1/90) base this readable account on interviews with Hall himself and others involved, supplemented by newly declassified materials in Moscow and Washington. They focus primarily on the war years and Hall's attempts to build a normal life in the 1950s. The authors do an especially good job of conveying the fear of capture that Hall and other spies experienced daily, and they provide lots of interesting details about tradecraft (how you actually commit espionage). Suitable for public and academic espionage collections.?Daniel K. Blewett, Loyola Univ. Lib., Chicago.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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