[Ted Hall] reached the decision at the tender age of 18, right before his 19th birthday, that the only thing that would work to prevent what he saw as a terrifying catastrophe of the U.S. having a monopoly on the bomb after the war would be for another country to have the bomb that could stop the U.S. from using it and so that’s what he did.  --David Lindorff

Journalist and filmmaker David Lindorff explores the story of Ted Hall, who, at age 18, leaked the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union in an attempt to secure a balance in the world's most dangerous arms race.  

That link as well as this one contains a transcript of the interview.  Nice.  

The movie is called A Compassionate Spy, 2023,

Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World https://t.co/IRYzJ3F8L9 via @amazon

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