26-December-2005, 09:21 PM
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From
Stalin & the Bomb
The View from Inside the Kremlin
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/pubs/quarterly/cqqxl2.html
"A spy in London for the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, a forerunner of the Committee of State Security (KGB), was the first to verify to the Soviet Union in September 1941 that Britain had decided to build a bomb. Even more valuable information began to flow from Klaus Fuchs, a spy on the British bomb team who also worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. According to Holloway, it was Fuchs who gave the Soviets key information on the "implosion" method of detonating a bomb, which is the process of using conventional explosives to compress nuclear material until it reaches "criticality" and detonates, as well as a sketch of the U.S. bomb, its components, and important dimensions."
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