This reminds me of the story about Theodore Hall, who gave secrets from the US atomic bomb projects to the USSR, allegedly for the sake of preventing a monopoly

This reminds me of the story about Theodore Hall, who gave secrets from the US atomic bomb projects to the USSR, allegedly for the sake of preventing a monopoly of such power by the US and balancing out the two major power blocs to prevent one from simply destroying the other, with all the associated horrors.