Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

52 mins | Documentary, History | Aug. 6, 2015

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.

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

52 mins | Documentary, History | Aug. 6, 2015

Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
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.
Producers Anaprod Productions
Original title Deux bombes pour une espionne
Directors Gérard Puechmorel
Writers Gérard Puechmorel

Cast

Hervé Lacroix

as Narrator (voice)

Albert Einstein

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

as Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Pyotr Vasilyevich Zarubin

as Self, son of Elizabeth Zarubina

Nikolai Bondarenko

as Self, historian and journalist

Alexandre Adler

as Self, historian and journalist

Nikolai Dolgopolov

as Self, author and journalist

Patrick Pesnot

as Self, author and journalist

Alan B. Carr

as Self, historian

Leó Szilárd

as Self (archive footage)

Leslie Groves

as Self, director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)

Jon Hunner

as Self, historian

J. Robert Oppenheimer

as Self (archive footage)

Klaus Fuchs

as Self, theoretical physicist and atomic spy (archive footage)

Claire Morin

as Elizabeth Zarubina (voice)