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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Oppenheimer Really Help Moscow? | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...Beria was purged and shot in 1953, Sudoplatov was accused of mass murders by the victorious Nikita Khrushchev and jailed for 15 years. He was eventually rehabilitated after addressing a 1982 plea to the Communist Party Central Committee mentioning his exploits in obtaining atomic information from Oppenheimer, Fermi and Bohr, among others. The committee, say the Schecters, could easily have checked every word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Oppenheimer Really Help Moscow? | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Steven J. Newman, | Title: CONCENTRATION! | 2/28/1991 | See Source »

...commuted between CERN and the Bohr Institute--or between Maria, the gorgeous blonde daughter of a German bassoonist, and Bonnie, my dark Danish damsel...

Author: By Jesper B. Sorensen, | Title: A Particle Life: Does It Matter? | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...Boston-area students were filmed at television station WGBH. Their Soviet counterparts, were filmed in Tiblisi, the capital of the Soviet Union's Georgian Republic, Bohr said...

Author: By Grace S. Park, | Title: Students Appear on Soviet T.V. | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

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