Theodore Hall

“I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because I was worried about the danger of an American monopoly of atomic weapons.”

“It seemed to me that an American monopoly was dangerous and should be prevented.”

“In 1944, I was a 19-year-old prodigy... I was worried about the specter of a nuclear-armed, fascist America after the war.”

“Each person has to live with his own conscience.”

“I felt that a monopoly of such a power in the hands of any one nation was a menace to world peace.”

“So I made contact with a representative of the Soviet Union, a country that had shed oceans of blood in the common cause.”

“I am not a religious person, but I think of my action as a fulfillment of a moral obligation.”