Atomic Betrayal: The Physicist Who Gave the Soviets the Bomb – Klaus Fuchs
In this gripping episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the shocking true story of Klaus Fuchs — the brilliant German-born physicist who fled the Nazis, helped build the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and secretly passed its most guarded secrets to the Soviet Union for over seven years.
From his ideological awakening and clandestine meetings with Soviet handlers to his work on the plutonium implosion design and the tense MI5 interrogation that finally broke him, this is a Cold War espionage tale of double loyalties, stolen nuclear blueprints, and devastating consequences…
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