The arrest of Klaus Fuchs for espionage in 1950 was a news sensation. The renowned physicist had spent years at the very ...

In the 1940s, the Soviet Union launched an all-out espionage effort to uncover military and defense secrets from the US and Britain (Klaus Fuchs, left, and David Greenglass, right). Associated Press, ...

For several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called “American spy hysteria.” Last week, when one of their top atomic scientists was arrested as a Russian spy, the superior ...

In their notebooks, which police found when they broke the Soviet spy ring in Canada in 1946, Soviet espionage agents were accustomed to make a brisk notation in Russian after the names of the ...

At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed ...

Seventy-four years ago on August 6, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, ...

Atom Spy. Robert Chadwell Williams. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1987. 267 pp. $25. KLAUS FUCHS The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. Norman Moss. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1987. 216 pp.

On this day, June 23, in 1959, convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs was released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to East Germany, where he resumed a scientific career.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Ronald Radosh ATOMIC SPY The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan The physicist ...