Hello everyone, Thank you for your interest in the film! We are out of the free tickets, but please do consider attending this wonderful event! ________________________________ About “A Compassionate Spy” On Sunday April 30 at 5:15, the Brattle Theater on Harvard Square, as part of the Boston Independent Film Festival, will be screening the new documentary film "A Compassionate Spy," (https://iffboston.org/series/the-festival/screening/compassionate-spy-a<…) which tells the story of Theodore "Ted" Hall, a '44 honors graduate of the Harvard physics department who at 18 was recruited during his junior year by the Manhattan Project (along with fellow students Roy Glauber, Kenneth Case and Fred De Hoffman . Beginning work at Los Alamos in January 1944, Ted was assigned to the Experimental Division of the bomb lab at Los Alamos where he was tasked with refining the complex implosion design used to successfully detonate the plutonium bomb used for the Trinity test and on Nagasaki. Ted Hall died of renal cancer in 1999 without ever being prosecuted, despite his having been identified in Soviet spy cables as a KGB spy at Los Alamos. Fortunately he had made a video tape, at the suggestion of his attorney "for the historical record." Meant to be kept locked away until Ted's and his wife's deaths, in it Ted explains what he did and why and was was provided to the filmmakers, by his widow Joan, a remarkable and sharp-witted woman of 90 who also agreed to be interviewed in detail for the film about he and Ted's 51 years together living always under the threat of arrest by the FBI or later, at Cambridge University, by MI5. The film shows that Ted Hall's decision to share the bomb's design was motivated by a fear (shared by many senior physicists at Los Alamos), of what the US would do if it emerged from WWII with a monopoly on the bomb -- a fear that is documented in the film by another physicist, Daniel Axelrod, whose book "To Win a Nuclear War," <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__press.uchicago.edu_ucp_books_book_distributed_T_bo33813049.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=pBBugarWzdXSxeFTF70B31up0utSHygHhvwqXrZGWEc&m=yhgCy3-rfipRHhkCss7cY1yvex2qyAT5nAsacgU7JJKaIQkzzmIvJnCQZ0sq6Jy6&s=59sLW8Ivgq-aZLCDezfVHGY0yy7pZP8sTeB2YnYwxa8&e=> based on Pentagon and NSC documents, shows how the Truman administration was pushing the industrialized manufacture of 400 atomic bombs by 1950 with the intention of launching a pre-emptive first strike on the USSR to prevent it's becoming a second nuclear power -- a plan scotched after the Soviets exploded a carbon copy of the "Fat Boy" Nagasaki bomb on Aug. 29, 1949. The film's producer Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter and discoverer of the story, will be at the screening and will host a Q&A discussion after the film. Here's a review by the Guardian following the film's debut last month in London: Five Stars: 'A Compasionate Spy - Love story of a spy who tried to stop nuclear war<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theguardian… Dave Lindorff, producer 'A Compassionate Spy'