Theodore Hall

“So I made contact with a representative of the Soviet Union, a country that had shed oceans of blood in the common cause.”

“I felt that a monopoly of such a power in the hands of any one nation was a menace to world peace.”

“I am not a religious person, but I think of my action as a fulfillment of a moral obligation.”

“It seemed to me that an American monopoly was dangerous and should be prevented.”

“Each person has to live with his own conscience.”

“I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because I was worried about the danger of an American monopoly of atomic weapons.”

“In 1944, I was a 19-year-old prodigy... I was worried about the specter of a nuclear-armed, fascist America after the war.”