By the end of World War II, Stalin's spies had delivered the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Kremlin. This accelerated Moscow's bomb project. When the Soviets detonated their first atomic weapon in August 1949, it was a replica of the weapon built at Los Alamos and dropped by the Americans on Nagasaki. This was arguably the biggest spy scandal in history. Who were these spies? How did they manage to breach the tight security of Los Alamos? How were they discovered? Were they brought to justice? Was Oppenheimer one of them?

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

COURSE OUTLINE

• A brief background on the development of the atomic bomb by the United States – the Manhattan project
• The spies that sent the information to Russia
• How did they manage to breach security?
• How were they caught and what happened to them?
• What was Oppenheimer’s involvement?