Security 3255

To this day in fact.

Better than Rhodes is the new book Engineering Communism. I think I posted some notes back when (my notes are on my laptop because I was asked to evaluate it and see what to collect) My old prof. Badash (one of Rhoades sources, and the guy who introduced me to this world) is amazed the staggering scale of what Hall, Rosenberg, and others copied (10,000s of pages).

true. I would not say peace loving as scared of Hitler in priority.

Didn't really know him well, but amused to have a few talks with him. He was quite a character and quite sharp.

Fuch, Hall, et al.

What is less known is how much of the other Manhattan sites were infiltrated. Joe I was a Pu device. But other questions remain.

Oh yes. I was part of a clbutt which had him by, and we talked about this over dinner. Explosive lensing was under consideration for industrial application before the war started (30s by guys like Munro, and later by Deke Parsens). A hint is that synchronization was less critical than people thought or realized. It's with the world today.

My old Prof. Badash is the guy to talk with about this. He has interviewed Kapitza's colleagues and the like. The spies were politcally overrated, and at best provided confirmatory info.

An interesting question is how less than technical spies convey information over wire in a era before eqn and TeX. Yes, pouches of ufilm are useful, but any technical person using fiches machines knows the limitations of squeezing Greek characters down too small.

I have an old boss at a DOE meeting at this moment in Oregon who has spoken with Russian device designers. They pursued different design ideas (as did Teller unsuccessfuly: and I don't me pre-Ulam, I mean DOD and the whole reorg just watch the Mil.-Industrial complex take off.

I think in Stalin's case, people should have read tea leaves between him and Lenin and watched how quite a few people on the periphery like artists and architects had their ideas squashed. That's the big Soviet elephant.

I have to run and give a talk on polar programs.

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