Webinar - The Principal Uncertainty with Dr. Vince Houghton

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to learn of the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? After all, this was the most important intelligence question of the early Cold War. Historians have debated this dynamic for decades, but most of them miss a key component of this story: this disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi 's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong? How could US intelligence have been so good against the Germans, yet so horrendous against the Soviets? Most importantly, did the intelligence success against the Germans cause the intelligence failure against the Soviets? Dr. Vince Houghton, historian, author, and museum director, will set the story straight.

Dr. Vince Houghton is the former Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum. As the museum's subject matter expert, he was a key member of the team that created and developed the content, exhibits, and design of the new museum. Vince has a PhD in Intelligence History, and is the author of two books – Nuking the Moon: and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board and The Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin. Dr. Houghton is currently the Director of the National Cryptologic Museum in Ft. Meade, MD.

6:00pm EST webinar, gratis. Advance registration required. Registrants will receive the link to join the webinar in a confirmation email.