OTD 1951, the Southern District of New York charged the Rosenbergs with espionage for providing U.S. atomic secrets to the Russians. Nearly a year earlier, Russia had shocked the world by announcing it had detonated an atomic weapon. For more info see: fbi.gov/history/famous… 
The Rosenberg spy ring was one of the most infamous in American counterintelligence history. Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were ultimately convicted and sentenced to death. videopress.com/v/VFeod8Xd
The judge, at sentencing,: “I consider your crime worse than murder, I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb has caused, in my opinion, the Korean war, 50K casualties and millions of innocent people may pay the price of your treason.”
