In 1956 the US the National Emergency Alarm Repeater (NEAR) program was created to supplement the existing siren warning systems and radio broadcasts in the event of a nuclear attack. Cases like the Rosenbergs, who in 1951 were convicted of providing top-secret information to the Soviets, were widely published in print and news reels and served to confirm the threats and skullduggery. In the west, suspicions grew that communist spies and infiltrators lurked everywhere. ![]() The first detonation of a nuclear weapon code named “Trinity” on 16 July 1945 at 05:29:45 Mountain Time and the mushroom clouds seconds after detonation. And on 16 July 1945 at 5:29:45 AM Mountain Time the world’s first plutonium implosion “atomic bomb” was detonated in New Mexico at the Trinity Site. Then came the Cold War and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in everything from sports to technology to the quality of their kitchens. With Operation Surgeon the British did pretty much the same, and the Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim program captured over 2,000 German specialists for the USSR. Kurt Debus, Eberhard Rees, Arthur Rudolph, Ernst Geissler, and Germany’s premier rocket scientist Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun were among the many. ![]() The Allied nations and the Soviet Bloc scrambled to get their hands on Nazi era technology and rocketry advances, and most importantly on the people involved.Ī secret American intelligence program Operation Paperclip brought hundreds of Nazi German engineers, technicians and scientists to the US. By John Bamford The year is 1945 and the War in Europe had ended.
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