The documentary A Compassionate Spy (now streaming on Hulu) arrived nearly in concert with Oppenheimer, both being about men who developed the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and suffered some deeply troubling ethical dilemmas. Director Steve James’ (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) doc profiles one of Robert Oppenheimer’s underlings, Ted Hall, a physics wunderkind who was recruited for the Manhattan Project at only 18 years of age, and ended up being an “atom spy,” leaking U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Ted Hall was only 19 years old when he passed classified secrets to the Soviet government. His role was not discovered until more than 50 years later, only a few years before his death in 1999.
New documentary 'A Compassionate Spy' reveals the crisis of conscience that led Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall to spy for the Soviets, and how his spouse Joan kept his secret
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