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Referring to assessments that his actions changed the course of history, Mr. Hall gave up, say Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, authors of the 1997 book ''Bombshell: The Secret Story of American's Unknown Spy Conspiracy'' (Times Books), was not merely knowledge of the bomb's existence, but technical information that helped the Soviet Union build a bomb years earlier than it could have otherwise.
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