A Compassionate Spy | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he' | dG1fTlprQ3FzX1pJN0E

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00:00 This is a recording for archive purposes.

00:02 The idea is to document Ted Hall's activities

00:06 in connection with his work on the atomic bomb.

00:09 I left high school at 15 and went to the University of Chicago

00:14 in my third year in the place, and I met Ted.

00:16 We just went around together.

00:17 Ted Hall was a man with a remarkable mind.

00:20 He was a senior at Harvard at the age of 18.

00:23 A recruiter from Washington came up.

00:25 His mission was to pick up a few very junior physicists

00:29 who helped in the research work at Los Alamos.

00:32 Suddenly, Ted went all serious and he said,

00:34 "There's something I have to tell you."

00:35 He was working on the implosion bomb.

00:41 It was one of the major secrets of the war.

00:45 We have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction.

00:51 Something gruesome and horrible was being constructed.

00:54 Knowledge should be shared.

00:57 They had decided they wanted to get in touch with the Soviets.

01:00 Ted had passed along the first information of this bomb

01:03 that would blow up Nagasaki.

01:05 This speeded up the Soviet development of the bomb by about five years.

01:10 He did agree to continue.

01:13 That was when the hunt resumed.

01:15 The FBI started following us.

01:18 The Rosenbergs were small fish compared to Ted Hall.

01:22 The Wunderkind spy.

01:25 It was very dangerous that the Americans had a monopoly of this weapon.

01:29 Did you provide information to the Soviet Union?

01:32 What should have been done with Ted Hall?

01:34 Shot.

01:35 The world has come extremely close to a real, actual, total disaster.

01:40 What made you do it?

01:42 I guess a major factor would be compassion.

01:46 [EXPLOSION]

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