The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb

The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb

The Story of Dr. George Koval: American-Born Super Spy Who Gave Secrets of the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union

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Address: 1075 Mound Rd, Miamisburg, OH 45342 [Map/directions]
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Cost: FREE

The Man Who Stole the Atomic Bomb

Dr. George KovalGeorge A. Koval (1914-2006) was an Iowa-born Russian scientist who during World War II was an agent of Soviet military intelligence (i.e., the GRU) working within the Manhattan Project and who provided critical technology from the Oak Ridge and Dayton locations that drastically reduced the amount of time it took the Soviet Union to develop and detonate its first nuclear device in August 1949.  In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin honored Dr. Koval with the posthumous decoration of the highest state honor, “Hero of the Russian Federation”.  Operating under the pseudonym “Delmar”, Koval had been the only known Soviet intelligence officer to penetrate the U.S. secret atomic facilities that were producing the plutonium, enriched uranium and polonium used to create the first atomic bombs during World War II.  Koval had supplied very detailed information that helped to speed up considerably the time it took for the Soviet Union to develop and fabricate its own atomic bomb which resulted in the decades long nuclear arms race during the Cold War with the United States. 

George Koval died in Moscow in 2006. Cited among his major contributions to the Soviet atomic project was the design of the neutron initiator used in the first Soviet atomic bomb just as it had been in the Trinity device and Nagasaki bomb by the USA.

Dr. Bob Bowman will be our guest speaker.  Bob holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry and was employed at the Mound Laboratory from 1969 until he left as a Science Fellow in 1984. After Mound, he worked for three aerospace organizations in southern California. Bob is currently employed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is also a Director on the board of the Mound Science and Energy Museum.

Please plan to attend this interesting, informative and free presentation on March 22, 2017 at the MOUND SCIENCE AND ENERGY MUSEUM at 7 pm. For more information please contact the Museum at msem475@gmail.com, or call 937-353-4457. Please remember to “like” the Museum on Facebook/Mound Museum.

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