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Sudoplatov reports a conversation between Bohr and Yakov Terletsky, a Soviet physicist and intelligence agent, in Denmark in 1945. Terletsky supposedly told Bohr that a nuclear reactor built in the U.S.S.R. would not work, and Bohr gave precise advice on what went wrong and how to fix it. The conversation did occur, but Bohr's son Aage, who was present, insists his father gave away no technical secrets. His account was backed up by Terletsky -- at least according to Roald Sagdeev, a former Soviet physicist now teaching at the University of Maryland, and other scholars who have read...
Oppenheimer, says Sudoplatov, suggested that Klaus Fuchs be included in a group of British scientists sent to Los Alamos to work with Oppenheimer's American team on developing an atom bomb. That claim was based on a report by a Soviet agent named Alexander Feklisov. But the documentary record indicates the team members were selected by British authorities. The point is of more than passing importance: Fuchs was later found to have provided the Soviets with actual drawings of the American atom bomb...
...wish I could say the same about the Red Sox or Bruins. And speaking of those Bruins, Cam Neely's a free agent, wouldn't he look nice playing next to Messier? It probably won't happen, but then again they probably said Boston would never get rid of that guy Babe Ruth...
...procedure, with finding the right authority to act has drained American foreign policy of initiative and coherence. The Gulf War showed that the U.N. can be a useful tool to help us do what we have to do in the world. But to see the U.N. as the principal agent of world stability and the U.S. as its tool is to forfeit any claim to a foreign policy, let alone to world leadership...
...months after his arrest for spying for Moscow, CIA agent Aldrich Ames was sentenced to life in prison without parole after agreeing to a plea bargain that will guarantee a five- to six-year prison term for his wife Rosario. The shortened sentence will allow her to return more quickly to caring for the couple's five-year-old son Paul. In exchange, Ames will cooperate with authorities in ascertaining the extent of the damage caused by his nine years of spying...