Alan Nunn May
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Alan Nunn May (May 2, 1911 — January 12, 2003) was a British physicist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviets during the Manhattan project.
He joined the Communist Party in the 1930s. He was unmasked as a spy in Canada and faced trial in 1946.
He was exposed when the Canadian Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected, and while not immediately arrested, he was ultimately charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act. He was sentenced to ten years hard labor, of which he served six.
Damage inflicted by Nunn May’s espionage was not on level with that of Klaus Fuchs, nor that alleged to have been inflected by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and was over less time, but was the first such case to be discovered, and revealed weaknesses in British and American security.
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Categories: Soviet nuclear program | Manhattan Project | Soviet spies | Venona Appendix C | 1911 births | 2003 deaths
