Spies of War

The Atomic Spies (1x4)

Ausstrahlung: Jun 06, 2019

August 29, 1949: only four years after the U.S. drops the first atomic bomb, the Soviets drop one. No one expected it so soon. Behind the scenes of this major event which froze the world in four decades of cold war, Soviet Secret Intelligence developed one of the most massive networks of moles of the twentieth century. In this episode of “Spies of War,” you will discover how and why several brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb to the sworn enemy of the U.S. Understand the hidden motivation of those atomic spies and follow them into their clandestine meetings. Discover the astonishing Venona Project, how the US counter-intelligence services managed to crack the codes of Soviet telegrams to expose and plug the leaks.