Word: bohr
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...sensational tales of Soviet espionage; in fact his closeness to Beria, Stalin's last secret-police chief (1938-53), whom he served as a spy master, put him in a position to know. But Sudoplatov's most stunning charge -- that world-renowned physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr and Leo Szilard knowingly funneled U.S. atom-bomb secrets to Moscow during the World War II era -- has been assailed by critics right and left, scientists and historians, American and Russian. They cite enough errors, inconsistencies and implausibilities to make a troubling case...
Those of us who are no longer innocent little freshpersons have lost the chance to have a happy, peaceful edifying Harvard career that would prepare us well for pretentious social functions. We realize now that no one talks about Durkheim over drinks, or about Bohr at baseball games, but it's too late...