Confusing about all the espionage in Christopher Nolan's film? Let us explain
In the atomic race for arms; it was America vs. Russia. But amid an era of heightened paranoia and suspicion, one man managed to infiltrate J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project and fed back classified information for the Soviet Union to race ahead in nuclear weapons., during Oppenheimer’s security hearing, the name Chevalier is brought up several times as the authorities try to pin the leak on the fact that they believe Oppenheimer to be a Communist.
After the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities hearing, Chevalier lost his job at Berkeley, and was unable to find another professorship in the US. He moved to France where he worked as a translator, until he died in Paris, aged 83, in 1945.Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Germany in 1911 and studied mathematics and physics at University, as well as becoming involved in politics, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later the Communist Party of Germany.
A year later, he became an asset of GRU in Britain, and he was transferred to the Russian military intelligence of NKGB.
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