“There’s something I have to tell you:” As an 18-year-old undergraduate at Harvard, Ted Hall was recruited to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team develop a weapon that would alter the course of human history.
When the Atomic Bomb was detonated twice the following year, over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hall did not share in his colleagues’ enthusiasm for the Manhattan Project.
Due to his fears that the United States, having a monopoly over an ineffably destructive power, would cause a nuclear catastrophe, he relayed the bomb’s secrets to the Soviet Union.
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