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Klaus Fuchs

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In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.


— Klaus Fuchs


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Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.


— Klaus Fuchs


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Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.


— Klaus Fuchs


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The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.


— Klaus Fuchs


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The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.


— Klaus Fuchs


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There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.


— Klaus Fuchs


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Some former Soviet scientists said they were actually hampered by Fuchs's data because Beria insisted that their first bomb ("Joe 1") should resemble the American plutonium bomb ("Fat Man") as much as possible even though the scientists had discovered a number of improvements and different designs for a more efficient weapon. Hence he began transmitting military intelligence to the USSR though the historical record is unclear about exactly when he started. [citation needed]
Whether the information Fuchs passed relating to the hydrogen bomb would have been useful is still somewhat in debate.

While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and later the early models of the hydrogen bomb the first fusion weapon. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American British and Canadian atomic bomb research (the Manhattan Project) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

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