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Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
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Harry Gold
Swiss-American chemist and convicted Soviet spy during the Second World War
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Klaus Fuchs
German-born British physicist and atomic spy (1911–1988)
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Manhattan Project
World War II Allied nuclear weapons program
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Country in Eurasia (1922–1991)
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American spies for the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
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