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Scribbled in a notebook among the Canadian spy papers was the name Fuchs, but for a long time nobody thought to connect the name significantly with German-born Klaus Fuchs, an anti-Hitler refugee who was high in Anglo-American atom councils. Four years passed before Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England (and sentenced to 14 years). His confession led to the arrest of Courier Harry Gold in Philadelphia. The trail from Harry Gold led to the Rosenbergs, Greenglass and Soviet Spy Master Anatoli Yakovlev, who was ostensibly a Soviet vice consul in New York...
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...usual, the Atomic Energy Commission released only a few guarded bits of information. The next U.S. atom-bomb tests (which may be in progress already) will be held on remote Eniwetok Atoll. They will be made by Joint Task Force Three, commanded by Lieut. General Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada of the Air Force and including personnel from the three armed services, civilian government agencies, and the AEC and its contractors. No one except members of the task force will be allowed closer than 200 miles from the guarded atoll...
...specific detail. One purpose of the tests will be to determine the effect of atomic explosions upon "structures and materials of various kinds." The AEC assured the American Institute of Architects that special efforts will be made to gain information useful to architects trying to design atom-resistant buildings...
There is no way of knowing whether Argentina has been able to discover a cheap method of producing atom bombs, Phillip G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics, said last night. In the early 1930's Frank taught Dr. Ronald Richter, supposed head of the Argentine program...