Revealed: the fourth spy in the US atomic bomb project
William J. Broad
The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert – a result of a highly secretive effort code-named the Manhattan Project, whose nerve centre lay nearby in Los Alamos.
Just 49 months later, the Soviets detonated a nearly identical device in Central Asia, and Washington's monopoly on nuclear arms abruptly ended.
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