of course they had their own research project but it ' s not the point of the discussion , maybe they would put all the pieces together by themselves maybe they wouldn ' t the soviets are famous for overstating their abilities and achievements we ' re discussing how ridiculous , ignorant and possibly genocidal could the train of tough of those smart scientist be scientists from los Alamos were willingly giving informations to Russians espionage because they believed it would be disaster to the world if only US have possessed nuclear bomb , they were ideologically motivated not by profit i ' m not making this up they tough it would make the world balanced when in fact soviets were at least as bad as nazis