Atomic spies

Atomic spies or atom spies were people in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada who are known to have illegally given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War.

Atomic Spies Media

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  Klaus Fuchs, arguably the most important of the identified "atomic spies" for his extensive access to high-level scientific data and his ability to make sense of it through his technical training

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  Sketch of an implosion-type nuclear weapon design made by David Greenglass as state's evidence, illustrating what he gave the Rosenbergs to pass on to the Soviet Union

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  Lona Cohen on Russian stamp

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  Morris Cohen on Russian stamp

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  Klaus Fuchs ID badge photo from Los Alamos National Laboratory

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  Mugshot of David Greenglass

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  Theodore Hall's ID badge photo from Los Alamos National Laboratory

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  Alan Nunn May, University of Cambridge physicist

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  Mugshot of Ethel Rosenberg

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  Police photograph of Julius Rosenberg after his arrest