diaries. in those during the late thirties when klaus fuchs was there he was always showing up in some little piece of paper i had from the boards. he was showing up is a nice person. he was taking their children out to the movies. he played cards with them. he was in there a little ensemble that they had at their house. and people like him. he was very quite anti. he was a nice person. all of a sudden he was a spy. they were dumbfounded. and i came into this information because i did not know much about him when i was first working on it. so at that point as i was writing about it, i was like, i should find out more about fuchs, an interesting person to put in the book. i went into the archives in london. and there were three little skimpy files. the very last when i looked at had a letter, a memo in it, from somebody in the administration saying where my supposed to do with all of these fuchs files, his trial? the person who received said throw them away. when i saw this i
history tv, every weekend on c-span3, explore our nation s past. america sreated 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. let s 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 1930 s. 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 abou
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 you ve 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 pro-government marches we re seeing throughout the day there are 2 parties spoke to me earlier from this. it s the closest large city to the russian border and that s that s where we are and few 1000 people gathered supporting the governm
why don t 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. he ll 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
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. he ll 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 we re still living with today. we re talking ab