🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 This is a hero in history who is often overlooked.

Klaus Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and communist activist who worked at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico on the Manhattan Project with Robert Oppenheimer. Prior to his work in the United States he was working with the British and Canadians on their nuclear weapons project known as Tube Alloys with Sir Rudolf Peierls. In the mid to late 1940s, after his time at Los Alamos, he also worked at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Oxfordshire.

While at Los Alamos, Fuchs had been responsible for many significant theoretical calculations that would lead to the development of the first nuclear weapons (atomic bomb) and later the early models of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bomb). But what the United States and Britain didn’t know is that he was actually a spy for the Soviet Union.

Over the course of seven years from 1942 to 1949, Fuchs risked his life and his career to pass secret U.S. and British nuclear information over to Moscow, through his handler, Ursula Kuczynski, a fellow German communist and Soviet spy. He understood that if the United States and Britain were able to gain a monopoly over these kinds of weapons, they would be able to unilaterally enslave humanity and impose their will on the rest of the world with no questions asked.

It was because of Fuchs’ work as a spy that the Soviet Union was able to accelerate their nuclear weapons development project by two years and test their first atomic bomb, known as RDS-1 in 1949. It ended the four-year nuclear monopoly that the U.S. held since the Trinity Test in 1945 and prevented the emerging global superpower from being able to imprison the rest of the world alongside the British Empire.

Unfortunately though, he was caught and sentenced to 14 years in a British prison, of which he served nine.

However, in 1959, after his release from prison, he would later migrate to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) where he would become a scientific leader, first in the Academy of Sciences and then as the deputy director of the Central Institute for Nuclear Physics in Dresden. He also served his country in the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

Fuchs in many ways was the Edward Snowden and Julian Assange of the 1940s. The U.S. and Britain thought they were going to rule the world with an iron fist once they had their hands on the bomb. It was Fuchs who risked everything to make sure that didn’t happen and that there was a balance of power. It is for that reason that Klaus Fuchs is one of the greatest and most principled heroes of the 20th century and in human history.

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