Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World
Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1633888959 | 293 Pages | EPUB | 3.2 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1633888959 | 293 Pages | EPUB | 3.2 MB
At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos in 1944. Assigned the job of testing and refining the complex implosion system for the plutonium bomb, Hall was described as “amazingly brilliant” by his superiors on the project, many of whom were Nobel Prize winners. But what Hall’s colleagues didn’t know was that the teenaged Hall was also the youngest spy taken on by the Soviet Union in search of secrets to the atomic bomb. Spy With No Country tells the gripping story of a brilliant scientist whose information about the plutonium bomb, including detailed drawings and measurements, proved to be integral to the Soviet’s development of nuclear capabilities.