Klaus Fuchs: 6. Camp Y

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Aug 12, 202238:45Society & Culture

Lives on the line. The Fuchs family is drawn into the espionage as the atomic bomb project takes a deadly turn. Klaus is at the covert Manhattan Project laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In this desert terrain, he ha...

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