Venice: The little-known story of a teenage scientist who passed on U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union is the subject of a new documentary that premiered at this week’s Venice Film Festival. The Compassionate Spy hopes to rekindle the debate about nuclear weapons at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. “Climate change and other issues have distracted us from that threat, but it’s always been there and it’s coming back,” James told AFP in Venice.
James, who is best known for his groundbreaking 1994 documentary, said, “Many people think he shouldn’t have done it, his fear that the United States would become fascist, or that the United States would strike first against the Soviet Union. I would have to conclude that there was no basis,” he said. “Hoop Dreams”. “But there is no doubt that he did it for good reasons, not for profit or prestige, but because he was genuinely afraid of the possibility of the United States. And in the end, he dropped the nuclear bomb. It’s not an irrational fear, because we’re the only ones who have it.”
The FBI has long suspected the Spy Hall of Fame, but has been unable to find conclusive evidence. But tensions between him and his family were almost unbearable, especially when two of his spies, Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in the United States in 1953. It was a wartime ally and is considered to have braved Nazism. Hall later said he wouldn’t have done it had he known about Joseph Stalin’s crimes at the time.”Maybe he was being naive on purpose,” James said. “But we have to remember, he was very young.”
