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Eric Schlosser says the USSR's first nuclear weapon was almost identical to the one used on Nagasaki because a 'network of Communist spies' at the Manhattan project 'simply took' the plans. Was the US atomic program really this compromised?

by /u/eeeeeep in /r/AskHistorians

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