@wellerstein When Kurchatov made the comment quoted here, he had only reviewed espionage on uranium work in the UK, not on any US activity.
And give yourself 1,000 nuke wonk points if you can spot the error here. (Much more subtle than the previous one.)pic.twitter.com/TvNPnt7v
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@alistairsponsel That is a good point (and that quote was from VERY early in the Sov. program), but not what I had in mind. -
@wellerstein Are you referring to the fact that US alarm was prompted by discovery of fission products rather than bomb "explosion" itself? -
@alistairsponsel Much more banal! Correct answer: Fuchs wasn't arrested by the FBI. He was arrested by Scotland Yard. Wrong country.
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@wellerstein 1950 is too late for the 'revelation.' The Kellock-Taschereau Commission (Gouzenko Affair) started in 1946. -
@JonRTurner True, but 1950 was more imp. for real spy craze. So I'll pass them on that. There is a bigger error in there.
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@wellerstein "nearly a decade"? -
@kenmayes No, more wrong than that.
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