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...nuclear reactor destined for the University of Ghana came the appointment of the school's first professor of nuclear physics: a Briton who has been 15 years away from the field. Recipient of the chair (among several earmarked for "distinguished scholars from all parts of the world"): Alan Nunn May, 51, who served six years and eight months for giving atomic secrets to the Russians...
Three times a day, Monday through Friday, the confident tones of U.A.W. Commentator Guy Nunn roll over the radio or TV airwaves from station CKLW in Windsor, Ont. to Greater Detroit, extolling the virtues of Swainson, Kennedy & Co. His sign-off on every show suggests a provocative philosophy of labor's role: "Take it easy, fellas-but take it." While John Swainson is the darling of the union-hall speakers' circuit, Paul Bagwell's many requests to address union locals have been turned down cold-except twice. One time, Bagwell was permitted to speak for 15 minutes...
...Interviewed in Cambridge, England, where he now "works for a friend" on nonsecret scientific matters, one former prisoner-though no child murderer-expressed eagerness to follow Lady Munning's suggestion. "I would gladly have gone up in the Sputnik," said Dr. Alan Nunn May, the West's first convicted atom spy. "I would have done it for science...
...monopoly over nuclear weapons. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the nation's first legislative pronouncement on the problems of nuclear control prohibited the resident from sharing nuclear secrets with other nations. Public hostility only deepened in the next few years with the discovery that the British scientists Fuchs, Nunn May, and Pontecorvo had successfully spied for the Russians...
...code clerk in the Russian embassy in Ottawa and into world headlines. From his briefcase Gouzenko produced 109 startling documents which laid bare the Russian atomic espionage network in North America and paved the way to the conviction of British Physicists Klaus Fuchs and Allan Nunn May, the Rosenbergs and half a dozen others who stole allied atomic secrets for the Kremlin. Except for acting as a government witness in numerous spy trials, Gouzenko has since shown himself only with a mask over his head, and lived with his wife and two children somewhere near Toronto under a "cover" name...