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...their hardships, Red China's scientists are producing results. From behind the Bamboo Curtain come rumors that significant supplies of uranium are being developed in Sinkiang province for export to the U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects...
...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...
...Editorialized the normally Anglophile New York Times: "Dr. John, who served British intelligence during the war . . . thus takes his place at the side of Fuchs, May, Pontecorvo, MacLean, Burgess and other traitors who evaded the British security system. It is perhaps time to suggest a little more cooperation between the British and American intelligence services in matters that could mean life or death...
...spite of the scandals kicked up by Atomic Scientists Alan Nunn May and Bruno Pontecorvo, and by Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, most Britons still find it hard to take their home-grown Communists seriously. Party membership is down to fewer than 30,000 and falling; the Communists lost their only two Members of Parliament in the general elections of 1950. One reason for this state of affairs is that the Communists themselves have shifted from electioneering to getting a hold on industry. Last week Britain was learning what Communists could do when they had firm control...
Then, last August 1953, thanks in part to the aid and knowledge of Bruno Pontecorvo, the Russians set off a superbomb explosion on the Aksu River. The Italian-born physicist and friend of MacLean was suddenly one of the most honored figures in Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...