Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin, in a story worthy of the best spy novels ever written.

• Gérard PuechmorelDirector
• Gérard PuechmorelWriter

• Hervé LacroixNarrator (voice)
• Albert EinsteinSelf (archive footage)
• Joseph StalinSelf (archive footage)
• Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
• Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
• Pyotr Vasilyevich ZarubinSelf - Son of Elizabeth Zarubina
• Nikolai BondarenkoSelf - Historian and Journalist
• Alexandre AdlerSelf - Historian and Journalist
• Nikolai DolgopolovSelf - Author and Journalist
• Patrick PesnotSelf - Author and Journalist
• Alan B. CarrSelf - Historian
• Leó SzilárdSelf (archive footage)