How the Hell did Stalin get the Bomb so much faster than we ever expected?
Communist Spies, of course, including Fuchs, Greenglass and the Rosenbergs. m/r
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AUGUST 29, 1949: The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb, a 20-kiloton device dubbed“First Lightning,” becoming the second nuclear nation and raising the stakes in the emerging Cold War. Revelations that espionage had fed the Soviet program, and fearing a loss of nuclear supremacy, President Truman moves ahead with the more powerful hydrogen bomb.
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