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.
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as Self (archive footage)
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as Self - Son of Elizabeth Zarubina
as Self - Historian and Journalist
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as Self - Director of the Manhattan Project (archive footage)
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as Elizabeth Zarubina (voice)
as Self - Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy (archive footage)
