After World War II; America was the only one with the secret to building a nuclear bomb, which gave it a source of power and hegemony over the world.
Theodore Hall is an American spy who pulled the rug under the feet of his country, and leaked this secret to the Soviets, but the strange thing was that he escaped from punishment, what is the story, how is that? This is what we will know in this post.
Theodore Hall was born in New York City in 1925 at the time of the Great Depression from Jewish parents, the economic crisis greatly affected his family and his father lost his job, which forced them to move to Washington, but all these difficult living conditions did not hinder him from learning or rather mastery.
Hall showed extraordinary ingenuity in mathematics and science, which made him join Townsend Harris High School for Gifted Boys at an early age, to end up with a graduate at Harvard University in 1944 at the age of eighteen.
A year later, at the recommendation of American physicist John Van Fleck, Hall was among the youngest scientists recruited to work on the secret Manhattan Project to research a nuclear bomb, where he actively participated in the manufacture of the atomic bomb called "Fat Man."
According to what he said later, Hall was at that time concerned about the danger of his country alone possessing the atomic bomb, which, according to his opinion, threatens the transformation of America into a fascist force threatening world security and peace.
Theodore Hall was influenced by Marxist thought based on his fellow dorm room mate Savile Sachs, who was born and raised in New York City but to Russian immigrant parents, Sachs was a fanatical communist, and he was the one who recruited Theodore Hall to work for the Soviets as a spy to transmit nuclear information.
In December of the year 1944 Hall and his friend Sacks leaked the first American nuclear secrets, the leaks were information containing everything you need about the manufacture of the plutonian bomb, and they remained with them for a long period of correspondence and detailed leaks.
Less than five years later, on August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union announced the manufacture of its first plutonium nuclear bomb, known as RDS-1, which was very similar to the American bomb known as "Fat Man".
The announcement came as a piece of snow and a strong surprise to the Americans, because this great similarity between the Russian bomb and the American "Fat Matt" bomb led them to suspect the leakage of their confidential information. Therefore, investigation and investigation efforts intensified.
In 1950, while Hall was working on his PhD at the University of Chicago, elements of the FBI raided his home. He was investigated and faced with charges of espionage in favor of Moscow, but he did not confess and denied all charges.
The Americans had leaked Russian cables confirming Hall's involvement in transmitting classified US data related to the manufacture of the atomic bomb, but the disclosure of that evidence would reveal to the Soviets the ability of Washington to decode its secret messages, and thus it would change its approach, which would greatly harm US intelligence plans.
The Americans preferred not to disclose their evidence, so when Hall was brought to court, the jury only found him acquitted of the charges against him, due to the lack of evidence of his involvement, and as a result of these considerations, Hall escaped with punishment.
In fact, the telegrams did not even confront him at the time, so as not to convey the news to the Russians!
After his release, Hall remained concerned about his arrest and indictment again, which prompted him to give up residency in America and move to the United Kingdom, after receiving an offer from the University of Cambridge to work there.
Hall was referred to retirement in 1984 after a life full of paradoxes, where he had quiet years, before his past attacked him again in 1996, when his story was revealed by lifting the secrecy of his telegrams with the Russians, and it became available to all.
At the time, Theodore Hall told the New York Times: "They claimed, I changed the course of history. Perhaps if it hadn't changed, the world would have witnessed a nuclear war in the past 50 years - and the bomb might have been dropped on China, for example in 1949 - well, if I had prevented it from happening." So, I accept the charge. "
The example that Hall intended in 1949 was when Mao Zedong declared the People's Republic of China on 10/1/1949 and brought down the pro-American Kuomintang government.
Were it not that the Russians had nuclear as a deterrent, America would have used nuclear weapons again
Howe lived for the rest of his life in Britain and died after suffering kidney cancer in 1999 at the age of 74
