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...arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for what J. Edgar Hoover termed "the crime of the century" and prompted President Harry Truman to launch an all-out program to develop the so-called Super Bomb. Two and a half years later, thanks to the determined efforts of Edward Teller and colleagues at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. detonated the first thermonuclear device, beating the Soviets to the H-bomb by more than three years...
...January-February issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, one of a series of scholarly works that are rewriting a period of U.S. history still shrouded in mystery and official secrecy. According to Daniel Hirsch and William Mathews, what Fuchs gave the Soviets was an early design of Teller's that turned out to be unworkable. The crucial insight, they say, came after Fuchs had been imprisoned, and it was supplied not by Teller but by his Los Alamos colleague Stanislaw Ulam. Says Hirsch, former director of the nuclear- policy program at the University of California at Santa Cruz...
...activist and peace advocate. In the 1940s and 1950s, he lived under security wraps as the Soviet Union's top nuclear scientist, cut off from all normal social contacts and followed at all times by a bodyguard. A theoretical physicist ranking with America's J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After he helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, he became one of the country's most decorated men. But he remained unknown because his honors were bestowed in secret. In those...
...Australia, made a fortune as a homebuilder and became famous for his flashy style. (His mansion is designed to look like Tara in Gone With the Wind.) He decided that U.S. retailing was a glamorous and growing business, so his Hooker Corp. bought B. Altman and the Bonwit Teller chain, which has grown to 17 stores, for $150 million...
...last month to relinquish control of his retailing empire and put the 17-store Bloomingdale's chain up for sale. In August Australian raider George Herscu put his U.S. retailing subsidiary into bankruptcy after becoming overwhelmed by its $1.2 billion takeover debt. Herscu may well have to sell Bonwit Teller (stores: 16) and B. Altman (7), which he acquired...