At least the Julius Rosenberg & Alger Hiss helped the Russians when Russia was a crucial ally in life-and-death war.
key question about A-bomb before 1945 was "would it work?" After Hiroshima everyone knew it would.
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US knew it'd work early '43. USSR would've gotten it eventually, but many more yrs if they had to duplicate MProj
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Plenty of folks knew with 95% certainty a U-238 'gun device' would work in the late 1930's. Industrial challenge.
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Bottom line: If atomic espionage didn't pay off, Stalin wouldn't have kept at it.
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Well, Stalin kept at LOTS of things that didn't work. But he was 100% correct on this one...
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