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...American Prometheus” has all the makings of a solid spy thriller. The protagonist is a brilliant but troubled physicist who flirts with the Communist Party and then does top-secret government work on the atomic bomb. Along the way, there are love affairs, a suicide, illegal wiretaps, vindictive former friends, and a kangaroo court. John le Carré could not have imagined a better story...
Klimkiewicz set the tone from the start by slugging his eighth home run in the top of the first, a bomb to the trees in left-centerfield. The shot, which tied Mann for the team lead, put an exclamation point on a resurgent season in which the junior was completely healthy for the first time in his college baseball career...
...According to a police report on last week's attacks, officers were in hot pursuit of a twenty-something terror suspect, Ehab Yousri Yassin, when he jumped off an overpass in central Cairo and detonated his bomb. The homemade device, apparently patched together with explosive powder from fireworks and a few handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen...
...effort to prove that he had been a party member, much less one involved in espionage, the inquest was a failure. Its real purpose was larger, however: to punish the most prominent American critic of the U.S. move from atomic weapons to the much more lethal hydrogen bomb...
After the war, when he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., Oppenheimer made powerful enemies with his stance against the hydrogen bomb, including Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). A ferocious advocate of the hydrogen bomb, Strauss set in motion the lethal chain of events that led to the hearing on Oppenheimer's fitness to hold a security clearance. The FBI put illegal taps on Oppenheimer's phones and planted bugs at his home and Princeton office. As a basis for its most serious charge, that Oppenheimer had been a secret party member...