Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb (2015)

8.5/10 52 min Documentary History

Overview

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin, in a story worthy of the best spy novels ever written.

Cast

Hervé Lacroix

Narrator (voice)

Albert Einstein

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Alexandre Adler

Self - Historian and Journalist

Leslie Groves

Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Self (archive footage)

Claire Morin

Elizabeth Zarubina (voice)

Klaus Fuchs

Self - Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy (archive footage)

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