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The Beginning of Gold
Harry Gold, a young chemist, after trying to get a job (because this was during the great depression), one of his friends that he knew told him about an opportunity. The friend told Gold about a person he knew named Tom Black, who was leaving his job from a soap factory. Black was willing to give Gold his old job, if Gold was willing to move to New Jersey. This lead to Black convincing Gold to work as a courier for the KGB, in which he (at first) delivered industrial chemical instructions. -
The Idea of a Bomb
The Idea of a Nuclear Bomb was first thought up of by Otto Hahn, the chemist in Berlin, Germany, who discovered Nuclear fission -
Einstein's Warning
Einstein is informed about the discovery of nuclear fission (during in his vacation in Peconic, New York) by two men named Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard. These two men convinced Einstein to send a letter to the president of the U.S., which then lead to the beginning of the Uranium Committee. -
The Uranium Committee
On this day, the letter of warning that was written by Einstein was brought over to the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. What Roosevelt got from this warning was that, if given the time, the Germans could build an Atomic Bomb and destroy the U.S. This then lead to Roosevelt creating the Uranium Committee. The mission of the Committee was to figure out how an Atomic Bomb might work, and what they would need to build it. This was the beginning of the race to build an Atom Bomb. -
The Start of the KGB's Relation with the Bomb
In Early March, the Soviet Union's spying group in America, known as the KGB, received a Coded telegram from Russia telling them that "Germany and the USA are frantically working to obtain uranium to use it as an explosive to make bombs of enormous destructive power, and to all appearances, this problem is quite close to practical solution. it is essential that we take up this problem in all seriousness." This marked off the beginning of the effort pushed by the KGB to gain info on the U.S bomb.