Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

Synopsis

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin, in a story worthy of the best spy novels ever written.

Top cast

Hervé Lacroix

Narrator (voice)

Albert Einstein

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler