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Manhattan Project Spies

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Bridge of Spies

The British Mission

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Quick Fact:
Despite intense security, the Manhattan Project was infiltrated by several spies at Los Alamos. Physicist Klaus Fuchs passed key information to the USSR about the design of the “Fat Man” atomic bomb.