Trinity - The treachery and pursuit of the most dangerous spy in history: The Birmingham Connection

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• Frank Close - U. Oxford
• Wednesday 04 December 2019, 16:00-17:00
• Small Poynting Lecture Theatre.

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Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Frank Close tells the story of the bomb’s metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls (who discovered the concept in Birmingham); his intellectual son, the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs who worked with him in Birmingham and Los Alamos; and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR . Frank will reveal new insights from MI5 files in the National Archives, and documents of the FBI and KGB . He has also overthrown a misconception lasting 60 years that J Edgar Hoover was central to Fuchs’ exposure: the real hero was probably GCHQ .

This talk is part of the Physics and Astronomy Colloquia series.

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