How Did The Manhattan Project Speed Up The Soviet Atomic Program?
The soviet espionage stole information that helped soviet scientists speed up the development of their atomic program. In this paper you will learn about the Soviet espionage and the Manhattan project. With that said, the Manhattan Project was started from the threat of the Axis Powers having an atomic bomb. Their scientists would be able to make their first bomb after a breakthrough of a Nuclear Chain Reaction. Countries trying to get information for America and the Manhattan project failed and the U.S. caught them. How did the Manhattan Project speed up the Soviet Atomic Program?
In 1939, a German scientist discovered nuclear fission. Two scientists named Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi had fled to the United States, they soon had agreed …show more content…
Other countries such as, Japan and Germany tried to get into America to learn more about the Manhattan Project. Most of them were caught even before they could learn more about anything close to the project that they didn’t already know. The Soviet Union was the only Country to get information about the Manhattan Project. There were two communist spies, who were able to get into the inner ring of scientists in the Manhattan Project. They were Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, Klaus was able to send valuable information to Soviet Intelligence until he was caught due to VENONA. He worked in the Manhattan project and on the British Atomic Program. Theodore sent information, but it was not nearly as valuable as what Klaus sent. He was eventually caught as well due to VENONA. The VENONA intercepts helped decrypt messages sent from Soviet intelligence in the United States to their superiors in Moscow. My main ideas were about the Manhattan Project and the Soviet Atomic Program, they helped me figure out whether or not that the soviets used research from the project to help them decrease the time it would take to make their bomb. The sources talked about the same things here and there but most of the time they were similar in a way. When they would argue is when they are talking about the Soviet espionage and other things. One of the things that they said about the espionage that was similar is that Klaus Fuchs was the top
In 1939, a German scientist discovered nuclear fission. Two scientists named Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi had fled to the United States, they soon had agreed …show more content…
Other countries such as, Japan and Germany tried to get into America to learn more about the Manhattan Project. Most of them were caught even before they could learn more about anything close to the project that they didn’t already know. The Soviet Union was the only Country to get information about the Manhattan Project. There were two communist spies, who were able to get into the inner ring of scientists in the Manhattan Project. They were Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall, Klaus was able to send valuable information to Soviet Intelligence until he was caught due to VENONA. He worked in the Manhattan project and on the British Atomic Program. Theodore sent information, but it was not nearly as valuable as what Klaus sent. He was eventually caught as well due to VENONA. The VENONA intercepts helped decrypt messages sent from Soviet intelligence in the United States to their superiors in Moscow. My main ideas were about the Manhattan Project and the Soviet Atomic Program, they helped me figure out whether or not that the soviets used research from the project to help them decrease the time it would take to make their bomb. The sources talked about the same things here and there but most of the time they were similar in a way. When they would argue is when they are talking about the Soviet espionage and other things. One of the things that they said about the espionage that was similar is that Klaus Fuchs was the top