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Chicago's Secret
During games at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, fans in the stands watched football while scientists conducted top-secret atomic research in a squash court below.
A Secret Stolen from the Inside:
As American atomic research progressed, the Soviets were determined to know more. The top-secret lab at Los Alamos became a hotbed of atomic espionage. A core group of scientists from several countries -- some motivated by ideology, some in it for the money -- began leaking details about the bomb to Soviet agents.
They gave such precise information that the Soviet bomb built in 1949 was strikingly similar to the American plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Suddenly, Americans faced a new threat -- a powerful enemy with the same nuclear weapons -- and the Cold War was on. |