Later records confirm Julius was a spy for USSR during WWII. Ethel, not so clear. Question of proportionality of sentence a separate issue.
64 years ago today, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as atomic spies. A polarizing Cold War event: either an atrocity or justice.pic.twitter.com/XsS0wVtcaD
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I find Julius simultaneously enigmatic and repellent — the horror of orphaning children in the defense of Stalin.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/10/17/riddle-julius-rosenberg/ …
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PS, I block obvious antisemites without agonizing over it — I'm too busy argue with idiots who wear their idiocy on their sleeve.
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In 1945, the Franck Report predicted USSR could have the bomb in 'a few years.' http://www.dannen.com/decision/franck.html …pic.twitter.com/4i97ILyZWE
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Right. Standard line amongst scientists in 1945 was "about 5 years." Even that mostly just a guess.
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Did Groves *actually* believe that it would take twenty years for the Soviets to get the bomb?
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Yes. For a variety of reasons: thought he had a monopoly on uranium, thought Russian engineering not precise enough for tolerances required,
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How essential were they to the Soviet atomic project compared to, say, Klaus Fuchs.
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Not very essential, in terms of any concrete details, etc. Their info mostly confirmed that Fuchs info was not just made up.
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Yet still just as much as hostile and guilty as Fuchs. Fuchs proved a bit nutty in his arrogance of seeing his fame as untouchable to Stalin
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If only justice had been more common; half of FDR's State Department would have gotten fried too. And throw in (((Harry Dexter White))).
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