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
A flight. Western media speculation of. The world this is or to international always. It is day 12 nation wide on rest in the wake of the disputed election earlier this month large crowds on both sides of the divide are making their voices heard those who support president Alexander Lukashenko and those who want to see him. People here are chanting for the president to resign in the city of goma but in contrast youve got a convoy of the president s supporters driving past them with the official red and green flying until the government demonstrators have also gathered in the Capital Square activists are lining up along. In eastern. I. And vitebsk packed earlier in the day with voices of people chanting their support for president lukashenko progovernment marches were seeing throughout the day there are 2 parties spoke to me earlier from this. Its the closest large city to the russian border and thats thats where we are and few 1000 people gathered supporting the government saying that
Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what
Mostly in dayton, i guess, but also in oak ridge. Oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentaliz
Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a couple of eye witnesses who will tell you what it was like to work with these spies. Set the stage. Thank you cindy. Is this microphone on . Way in the back . Well, i could talk about all the things that cindy talked about. I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what