Perseus (spy)
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Perseus was the code name of a hypothetical Soviet atomic spy that, if real, would have breached United States national security by infiltrating Los Alamos National Laboratory during the development o
Trinity nuclear test explosion; had Perseus been real, he would have given crucial information about this test to the Soviets.
Although the American physicist Philip Morrison was pointed out as Perseus possible real identity, the evidence for this was poor and the contradictions various.
Klaus Fuchs
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and
Perseus (spy)
…confirmed Soviet spies on the Manhattan project. They included Theodore Hall, George Koval, Morton Sobell, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Klaus Fuchs, and Harry Gold. A reference to the profile of a spy who can be identified with Perseus describes him as an American scientist of young age at the time…
Police photograph of Fuchs (c. 1940)
The Poynting Physics building at the University of Birmingham
Fuchs's Los Alamos ID badge
The grave of Klaus Fuchs and his wife Margarete in Berlin