Ted Hall, the teenage Los Alamos spy who may have saved the world

Dave Lindorff Interviewed about hit new book 'Spy for No Country' on Pacifica Radio's "Counterspin" media review program with host Janine Jackson

To hear this interview of LIndorff by Counterspin host Janine Jackson, click on the image above and advance the button to the 12:10 mark (about the middle of the gray bar)

Historians tell us that the Cold War is over, but the framing persists in news media that love a simple good guy vs. bad guy story, even as who the good and the bad guys are shifts over time. Telling history through actual human beings makes it harder to come up with slam-dunk answers, but can raise questions that are ultimately more useful for those seeking a peaceful planet. A new book provides a sort of case study; it’s about Ted Hall, who, as a young man, shared nuclear secrets from Los Alamos with the then–Soviet Union. Veteran investigative journalist Dave Lindorff has reported for numerous outlets and is author of Marketplace Medicine and This Can’t Be Happening, among other titles. We talked with him about his latest, Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World, which is out now from Prometheus Books.