The Un-Oppenheimer: The story of a teenager who sought to save the world
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Journalist and filmmaker David Lindorff explores the story of Ted Hall, who, at the age of 18 years old, leaked the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in an attempt to secure a balance in the world’s most dangerous arms race. His book, “ Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World ,” makes the case that due to the courageous work of Hall and fellow Los Alamos scientist Klaus Fuchs, the idea of mutually assured destruction was born and the U.S. lost its monopoly on the deadliest weapon ever made.
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