The buzz around Christopher Nolan's latest cinematic venture Oppenheimer is nothing short of electric. Starring Cillian Murphy as controversial physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the movie explores the complexities of the scientistâs life, including his Communist Party ties and an investigation into his loyalty during the 1950s 'Red Scare'. This week, SPYSCAPE goes behind the scenes of Oppenheimerâs top-secret life and meets the international spies who changed the world forever.
A-Bomb secrets
Irish actor Cillian Murphy (Dunkirk, Peaky Blinders) is thrilled to be portraying scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. âIt's the best script I ever read,â Murphy said. So whatâs it all about? Nolanâs biopic focuses on the conflicted physicist who developed Americaâs first atomic weapon - a bomb that could win WWII or wipe out humanity. The behind-the-scenes drama is equally intense, including claims the US scientist leaked intel to the Soviets.
Ted Hall is the boy who betrayed America. The teenage genius was an 18-year-old Harvard physics graduate who moved to New Mexico to build A-bombs. Within months of joining the Los Alamos Laboratory, he was also working as a Soviet spy codenamed Mlad (Russian for âyoung oneâ). The FBI knew Ted had repeatedly betrayed the US and they had evidence, so why didnât the Bureau arrest him?
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American-born atomic spy Lona Cohen was legendary in Russian intelligence circles but the forgetful agent almost blew up her espionage ring on her first outing as a courier. By the end of her career, however, Lona and her husband Morris were training a new generation of Russian sleeper agents to invade the US.
As WWII raged, humanity stood on the precipice of a new era in warfare. The atomic age had dawned and Earth's great powers were determined to secure their place in it. In this episode of True Spies, host Sophia Di Martino meets Professor Paul Broda who tells the story of his stepfather, Alan Nunn May, a UK physicist who considers himself a spy of conscience. Britain considers him a traitor and the chase is on.
Ex-CIA director Allen Dulles believes Klaus Fuchsâ treachery may have changed the course of history. The German was at the heart of the nuclear program in New York and New Mexico where he leaked every secret he knew to the KGB. Fuchs worked under the radar until Allied codebreakers decrypted Soviet transmissions but that left spies with a daunting task: theyâd need to outwit a genius to get a confession.
American confidence in Britain nosedived during the Cold War with the disappearance of UK diplomat Donald Maclean, an upper-class drunk with access to Washington and Londonâs top-level nuclear secrets. When Maclean and fellow spy Guy Burgess vanished in 1951 and resurfaced in Moscow, the US issued a blunt edict to Britain: âClean house.â So just how bad was the damage?
