that the soviets were supdtupid, evil, but they were able to steal our ideas. they had nothing original on their own but they were able to come into the united states deal with these commies giving secrets over. today we're going to focus on three major ideas, three major questions that are historically important for the atomic spies. one, who are the spies. what makes up their spy networks. what were their ideology, what was the reason that they were spying on the united states. secondly, when did the united states discover the espionage effort and what did we do to try to stop it. most of the american public doesn't discover the espionage effort until late in the 1940s, and even into the 1950s with the rosenburg trial. when did the u.s. government know it was going on? finally, for my purposes, how much did it matter? it is one thing to say there were spies, it is one thing to say we were doing something about it but how much of a difference did it make? this is the real historical question here. first two questions are relatively straightforward factual and

that the soviets were supdtupid, evil, but they were able to steal our ideas. they had nothing original on their own but they were able to come into the united states deal with these commies giving secrets over. today we're going to focus on three major ideas, three major questions that are historically important for the atomic spies. one, who are the spies. what makes up their spy networks. what were their ideology, what was the reason that they were spying on the united states. secondly, when did the united states discover the espionage effort and what did we do to try to stop it. most of the american public doesn't discover the espionage effort until late in the 1940s, and even into the 1950s with the rosenburg trial. when did the u.s. government know it was going on? finally, for my purposes, how much did it matter? it is one thing to say there were spies, it is one thing to say we were doing something about it but how much of a difference did it make? this is the real historical question here. first two questions are relatively straightforward factual and