Klaus Fuchs in Podcasts
personBritish physicist and Soviet spy who helped the USSR develop the atomic bomb.
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The Rosenbergs
So we'll talk a little bit more about what happened because there's different accounts depending on who you talk to. But what we do know that happened next was that they started to get caught. So the whole thing kicked off in February of 1950 when a guy named Klaus Fuchs, who was a physicist, he was British. He was discovered by MI6 as being a Soviet spy, and he was a big-time Soviet spy.