I like to begin by searching through BU’s library website and finding readily available books in Mugar or the Law Library. I’m beginning this guide with secondary sources because that is how I have started the vast majority of my research projects at BU. Within these categories, there will be topic-specific subsections for further organizational purposes. This guide will be organized into two sections: Primary Sources and Secondary Sources. The number of resources available regarding the Manhattan Project, atomic spies, and the Cold War is seemingly infinite, and includes everything from declassified government files to biographies to splendidly charming instructional videos for schoolchildren in case of a nuclear attack. Atomic spies would ultimately be the very beginning of Cold War espionage and also spark what would become the arms race in later decades. Fuchs would eventually be caught by the United States government, and his confession led to the arrest of several other spies within the Manhattan Project. For several years, Fuchs transferred all of his notes from the Manhattan Project to the government of the USSR. The most prominently known of these spies is Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist who was originally from Germany.
The focus of this research guide will be Soviet spies who infiltrated the Manhattan Project: a research and development program created during World War II by the United States and United Kingdom in an effort to create an atomic weapon.
0 kommentar(er)
