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Almost as President Truman's decision was announced, the U.S. learned it had been playing the game of survival with the enemy looking over its shoulder at all its top-secret cards. The arrest in London of Communist-Scientist Klaus Fuchs, a spy who had worked at top level atomic jobs in the U.S. (see INTERNATIONAL), led a jittery Washington to wonder whether even the deepest of military or state secrets were safe from the U.S.S.R.'s agents. It also wrote a chilling epilogue to such recent demonstrations of the meaning of treason as the trial...
...hardly a week goes by that that very matter is not brought up at the U.N., at his suggestion. As for the Vandenberg proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided. For 30 minutes the Senate chamber was still...
Fuchs became a member of the British atomic research project at Harwell soon after it was set up in 1946. He recently became head of the theoretical physics section, was one of the top nine scientists at the Harwell project. His annual salary was ?1,600 to ?1,800, which is considered very good pay for a scientist in Britain. He lived in three small rented rooms, was known as reserved and polite. His hobby was driving a sporty little MG car in his free time...
From the material that had gone to the Russians from Harwell, the FBI concluded that the leak was a top scientist; his selection of material was excellent; he knew what was important and what was not. By November the FBI had another lead: the Harwell informant probably had worked in the U.S. because he knew the "mechanics" as well as the physics of the bomb. (The method of detonating the bomb has always been the gravest U.S. secret.) The field was thus sharply narrowed and the closest surveillance set up over a handful of scientists. Of those, the one most...
...great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation of their Jewish and Mormon colleagues . . ." If they did so, said Scientist Murdock, "the youth of this country might flock to the churches that now repel them, and religion might even be restored to that position of central world significance which it enjoys in most societies but has lost...