Continuing the analogy to the Manhattan Project: They succeeded in keeping it secret from Congress, but failed at keeping it secret from the USSR.
To develop this (quite apt in my opinion) analogy, the reason why this happened is simple: some scientists and engineers wanted to do something so that no one country could dictate its will to everyone else. Whistleblowing project secrets to the Congress couldn’t have solved this problem but spying for a geopolitical opponent did exactly that
To develop this (quite apt in my opinion) analogy, the reason why this happened is simple: some scientists and engineers wanted to do something so that no one country could dictate its will to everyone else. Whistleblowing project secrets to the Congress couldn’t have solved this problem but spying for a geopolitical opponent did exactly that