She found this by while researching her previous book on nobel physicist. So lets go at it. I was asking you why close a few cars. I actually got interested in him when i was doing this because i had a lot of family papers, i had huge numbers of letters and diaries. In those, during the late thirties when he was there, he was always showing up in some little piece of paper that i had, he was showing up is very nice person. He took their children out to the movies. He played cards with them. He was in their little music on stumble. People liked him, he was very quiet, very shy but he was a nice person and all of a sudden he was a spy and they were dumbfounded and i came into this information as i did, i did know much about him when i was first working on it. So, at that point as i was writing about him i thought i should find out more about klaus fuchs, hes an interesting person. I went to the archives in london and there were three little skimpy files. The very last one that i looked a
Nancy i was interested in him when i was working on my on bourne. I had a lot of papers on the bou rnes. Letters, diaries. In the late 30s, when he was there, he was always showing up in some piece of paper. He was showing up as a very nice person. He took their children to the movies, played cards with them. As germans do. He was in their music ensemble. People liked him. He was very quiet, very shy, but he was a nice person. All of a sudden, he was a spy, and they were dumbfounded. I came into this information. They did not know much about him when i was first working on it. So, at that point, i thought i should find more about fuchs. I went to the archives in london and there were three little skippy files. Skimpy files. The very last when i looked at, had a letter from somebody in the administration saying, what am i supposed to do with all of fuchs files from his trial and everything . The person who received it said through them away. So i was astounded. There is not anything. Bo
History tv, every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Americasreated by Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Next on American History tv, Nancy Thorndike greenspan talks about her book atomics by the dark lives of klaus fuchs. The Leon Levy Center for biography hosted this event and provided the video. She explains how she discovered klaus fuchs while researching her previous book. Lets go at it. I was asking you why klaus fuchs. I was interested in him when i was working on my previous book. Papers. Lot of family diaries during those late 1930s. He was always showing up in some piece of paper. Showing up as a very nice person. He took the children out to the movies. He played cards with them. He was in there he was in their music ensemble. People liked him. He was very quiet, very shy, but he was a nice person. All of a sudden, he was a spy, and they were dumbfounded. They did not know much about him when i was f
In that airplane and work. That was that. Did you this is something i asked other people about who worked on the project did you ever catch any flak afterwards . A lot of people were really upset about the atomic bomb. Did any buddy ever give you about what you did . Not too much. If you are involved like i was and they know it, they are more impressed with that. Besides, its amazing how many people havent the atomic bomb. Nagasaki, thats another time. You dont get too much of that. The thing i get mostly is what we are doing here. People ask about it. For me, theres no question about it. It was a strange series of circumstances. I was just standing at the right place at the right time every damn time, and i ended up in this thing. So. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend and on holidays to only on cspan 3. Weeknights this month were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan 3. The u. S. Capital has been home
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