Overview

• ZDFheute’s three-part series investigates the Manhattan Project’s inner workings and its vulnerability to Soviet intelligence
• Oppenheimer convened top US scientists in remote Los Alamos, New Mexico, to develop the first atomic bomb under strict secrecy
• The documentary uncovers how Klaus Fuchs and other KGB agents passed detailed bomb research to Moscow
• It depicts continuous surveillance of Oppenheimer and his team by the FBI alongside monitoring by Soviet operatives
• The series traces how McCarthy-era loyalty hearings and Oppenheimer’s earlier communist associations led to the revocation of his security clearance