Julius Rosenberg: Electrical Engineer and Atomic Spy

If (as thought) they gave the nuclear secret to Russia, these two were really responsible for all those years of nuclear "standoff" that the world went through and to a degree is still going through! the Cold War might have been much warmer.....!

Russia would never have managed it in the short time scale without their help....nor would there have been so much proliferation.....

An interesting site....

Thanks for commenting on this story, Andy. If the Rosenbergs gave atomic secrets to the Soviets, then being able to blame it all on espionage could preserve a feeling of Western superiority while explaining away the Russian A-bomb. On a related note, it's interesting to consider how many in the West alternately denigrated the Soviet Union's technological capabilities, and then overestimated the Soviet threat. Sputnik is also a case in point. It's my understanding that Eisenhower had been given intelligence about Soviet capabilities, but doubted that the Russians could pull off such as technical achievement. Then, after the launch of Sputnik 1, the West went into panic about how it's students were behind in match and science.

The National Security Archive is a great web site. I'm on their weekly mailing list, which is how I learned of this court hearing.

I am sure the Russians would have learnt the secrets at some later point, but it would have been under their own merits, and probably "much much" later.....also some better sort of relationship might have remained after the war if Stalin had not had the weapons.....

We might have stayed as friendly with the Russians as we had in WW2 after they had changed sides to ours!!! Who knows!

If you understand who actually financed the Russian revolution, who supplied the gold from the US via the SS Halifax, and the infamous sealed train across Europe, then you should realise that the US Secret Service knew the Rosenbergs were sending that info across, and did nothing about it until it was too late, then blamed and executed the unhappy double-crossed Rosenbergs.

There is plenty of evidence around, for example refer here:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/secretsoc_20century/secretsoc_20century05.htm

Kind Regards....

I'm sorry, those sort of web sites neither convince me nor do they provide much verifiable material...... a few facts woven together with a good story does not provide the truth as I see it...

I know in the world today its difficult to sort out one from the other for a lot of people and I not just convinced that in what the government says lies always the truth either.....

Thanks but no thanks.

What was really sad in a way was that the Rosenbergs were most probably Jewish (going by their name) and they seemingly helped a country that had and continued to do so, persecuted Jews in a way not completely dissimilar to the Nazis......that is the strange part.

I am looking forward to reading the court notes when they are hopefully released to the public.

Whatever, the US Government got REALLY scared about communists for most of the rest of the 50s and early 60s......frantically so!! McArthy was it not?

Yes. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the leader of a communist "witch hunt" (as it's called) during the 1950s.

....and in your opinion was the Rosenberg problem probably the cause of that Witch Hunt, it is mine.....