Worth Dying For? Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs’ Stolen Secrets

The Cold War was a conflict like no other. A quiet, hidden conflict, drawn out and defined by intelligence collection, propaganda, and the race for nuclear weapons. This was a war won and lost by spies and by betrayal.

And of the all the treasonous betrayals, none was perhaps so severe, and had such far-reaching consequences, as that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. How did the Rosenbergs get their hands on such vital intelligence that the government was obligated to rewrite tradition?

And did they deserve to die?