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
Best selling soft drink are changing the formula to cut its sugar content by nearly half before a government levy on sugary drinks comes into effect. Lorna gordon has the details. It has been called scotlands other national drink, and the fizzy beverage with its distinctive orange colour has a loyal following. But the amount of sugar in irn bru is about to be halved. And not everyone is happy. I got up one morning after a night out and i is happy. I got up one morning after a night outand i had is happy. I got up one morning after a night out and i had gone to the usual irn bru and i was going through facebook and i heard the news, the sad news. Just couldnt do it. Couldnt do it. And without any option to get the original stuff. It is part of our culture, it is a Scottish National treasure. Ryan is storing bottles in his arctic. This is my stash. He is also behind a petition calling for the soft drink to remain unchanged. More than 20,000 people have now signed. The makers of irn bru s
Those who do find shelter are happy to be anywhere but outside. We see an average of 700 800 people every single day. Sometimes there are people who come in when its extremely cold who wont come in when its not so cold. A sudden drop in temperatures can hit hard anywhere. In florida, where in some parts snow fell for the first time in 30 years, cold seas saw hundreds of turtles rescued after their muscles started seizing up. As thousands of snow ploughs are deployed throughout the eastern seaboard, forecasters warn that the weekend could bring record breaking low temperatures. Lets ta ke lets take a look at the weather prospects. Not quite as bad here. You are quite right, not quite as bad. But we are heading for a hard frost in the far north. We may see some record breaking temperatures. Lets bask in some of the good news. It is cold out there but its beautiful from some, with lots of sunshine. A north easterly winds which makes it feel quite warm, particularly on these exposed coasts
I am from a muslim family which once ruled a very large feudal estate, including a beautiful palace in mahmudabad, in which we still live. But the Indian Government is laying claim to my property, saying that it is enemy property. No one is paying for it, so these days, everything is crumbling. This dispute goes back to 1910. The partition of india into two states, a muslim majority state called pakistan, and a hindu majority state of india. It was estimated that a Million People died. Ten Million People were displaced. Some muslims went to the state of pakistan. Many hindus came to india. It was not just the country that was divided. Families were divided, too. In the late 50s, my father took pakistani nationality, and that is when my familys problems began, because when india and pakistan went to war in 1965, the government laid claim to our properties. There was an act of parliament called the enemy property act, which empowered the government to take over, temporarily, the properti