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...money, technical know-how or laboratory equipment to fashion nuclear raw materials into a working weapon. In fact, experts believe that it would be extremely difficult for most terrorist groups to make an atom bomb without the resources of a friendly country. The task, says Spurgeon Keeny, a physicist who is executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, is like building an automobile. Many people know how one is assembled, "but there is a lot of difference between that and sitting down in your shop and doing...
...best remembered as the spy who took rain checks. An OSS operative during World War II, Berg traveled widely, lived well and managed to be where trouble wasn't. In 1944 he was at a conference in peaceful Switzerland to hear a lecture by Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel prizewinning physicist who headed Hitler's atom-bomb project. Berg's orders were to shoot the scientist if it became apparent that the Nazis were close to producing a nuclear weapon. Berg did not know enough physics or German to be sure whether or not he should shoot, and he didn...
Schlaifer first taught at Harvard in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the departments of economics, history and physics from 1940 to 1943. After that he worked at Harvard's Underwater Sound Laboratory as a physicist until 1947, going along with it when it was relocated to Pennsylvania State University...
...close-to-the-bone kind of town, just across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico. He golfed, shot pool, ate modest portions of simple food at a cafeteria nearby and at a clattery coffee shop, hung with a couple of lawyers, an artist, an academic and a Nobel-prizewinning physicist next door in New Mexico, saw some young women ("He's not a real terrible rounder," says a local gossip who knows him), let the natural world claim him and continued to produce world-class literature that somehow got sweeter-tempered, as though it had occurred to him that nasty...
Sudoplatov reports a conversation between Bohr and Yakov Terletsky, a Soviet physicist and intelligence agent, in Denmark in 1945. Terletsky supposedly told Bohr that a nuclear reactor built in the U.S.S.R. would not work, and Bohr gave precise advice on what went wrong and how to fix it. The conversation did occur, but Bohr's son Aage, who was present, insists his father gave away no technical secrets. His account was backed up by Terletsky -- at least according to Roald Sagdeev, a former Soviet physicist now teaching at the University of Maryland, and other scholars who have read...