The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

11. The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb

09.25.2021 - By Freakonomics Radio + StitcherPlay

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To her neighbors in the English countryside, the woman known as Mrs. Burton was a cake-baking mother of three. To the Soviet Union, she was an invaluable Cold War operative. Ben Macintyre, author of Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy, explains how the woman who fed America’s atomic secrets to the Russians also struggled to balance her family and her cause. Hosted by Sarah Lyall.

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