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The Soviet A-Bomb 1949
Stalin made the creation of an Atom bomb a top priority
Many German scientists had been arrested and were made to help the Soviets
Klaus Fuchs was a British Scientist working on the Manhattan project.
- He was sympathetic to Communism and passed on lots of details to the Soviets.
Joe-1 was exploded years before the Americans expected them to have made one.
It helped lead to the McCarthy hysteria.