Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Even in the face of death, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg refused to confess. Try brilliant.org/Newsthink for FREE for 30 days and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

Chapters:
0:00 The Atomic Shock
0:13 Klaus Fuchs Confesses
0:29 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
1:14 The Manhattan Project Leak
1:43 Greenglass Agrees to Spy
2:31 Espionage
3:31 The Jell-O Box
4:28 The Arrests Begin
5:15 A Family Turns on Itself
5:53 The Spy Ring Unravels
6:30 The Rosenbergs’ Trial
7:49 The Sentencing
8:55 Appeals and Defiance
10:39 The Executions
11:59 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant

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Sources:

Battle Hymn of the Republic performed by West Point Band: youtube.com/watch?v=yAqNe-m0a8s

Knickerbocker village apartment where the Rosenbergs resided: jqpubliq (original)Vzeebjtf (cropped and lighting-altered), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons