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Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to be the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, to create a bomb before the Germans did, Ted Hall didn’t share his colleagues’ elation after the successful detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb. Increasingly concerned during 1944—with Germany clearly losing the war—that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon after the war could lead to nuclear catastrophe, he decided beginning that October to start passing key information about the bomb’s construction to the Soviet Union.
A Compassionate Spy reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, and the couple’s remarkable love and life together during more than 50 years of marriage. The film premiered at the 2022 Vienna Film Festival.
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Mahler - Symphony No. 2, Mahler - Symphony No. 3,
Mozart - Violin Sonata No. 24, Schumann - Symphony No. 4,
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7, and Dvorak - Symphony No. 9
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