Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were American citizens accused of espionage for passing classified information about nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Julius was a engineer involved in atomic research, while Ethel was his wife. In 1951, they were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death. Their trial and execution in 1953 sparked widespread controversy, with debates over the fairness of their prosecution and the threat of espionage during that tense period of geopolitical rivalry. Their case remains one of the most famous espionage trials in U.S. history.