Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs steals US plutonium bomb secrets
Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant physicist and unsuspecting Soviet spy, pulled off the ultimate heist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. With his reputation as a top scientist, Fuchs gained access to the inner sanctum of the Manhattan Project, where he worked alongside the likes of Robert Oppenheimer. But little did anyone know, Fuchs had a secret: he was secretly feeding sensitive information to the Soviets, including the coveted plans for the United States' plutonium bomb. On this fateful day, Fuchs handed over the blueprints to the USSR, reshaping the nuclear landscape and catapulting the Soviet Union into the atomic age.
Occurred on: October 18th, 1945