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They built their own based on information acquired through espionage from people on the manhattan project or connected to them such as Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and the Rosenbergs among others.

There has been no evidence presented at all to prove that Oppenheimer supplied the Soviet Union with information about the atomic bomb.

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There where people in the United States the told them information the names were

Julius and Ethel Rosenbergthey were American Communist.

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Through the use of espionage.

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