Julius And Ethel Rosenberg's Trial

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Two years after the Soviet Union tested their atomic bomb, its government accused a couple who were supposedly giving information to the Soviet Union. The couple, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, retrieved information on atomic bombs from Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass. David Greenglass who worked on the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. When Julius and Ethel went on trial in 1951, a great number of Americans believed that America was filled with traitors and spies. It states that, "The U.S. government accused Greenglass of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who then passed it to Moscow." The couple later was sentenced to death because they were convicted of spying on the