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Book: Soviets stole H-bomb secrets
Osceola, Wis. (UPI) Dec 30, 2008 Moscow acquired the secret of the hydrogen bomb from an atomic spy at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico, a new book says. "The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation," by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman, does not name the suspected spy, but says he was born in the United States, grew up in a foreign country, fell in with communist sympathizers during the Depression and worked at Los Alamos during World War II. Afterward, he became "deeply involved" in the U.S. effort to develop the H-bomb, the book says. The book, due out in January, says that co-author Stillman, a physicist who worked at Los Alamos from 1965 to 2000 and served for more than a decade as the lab's director of intelligence, took his suspicions to the FBI in the 1990s. But the FBI inquiry was "botched beyond recognition" and went nowhere, the book says. The FBI declined to comment. The alleged spy is now dead, the book said. "It's quite intriguing," nuclear historian Robert Norris told The New York Times. "We've learned a lot about atomic spies," he said. "Now, we find out that a spy may be at the center of the H-bomb story too." Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Swiss engineer in nuclear secrets probe freed on bail: report
Geneva (AFP) Dec 28, 2008A Swiss engineer who was arrested four years ago on suspicion of smuggling nuclear secrets to Libya has been freed on bail, Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported Sunday. |
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