John Raper, a reporter for the Cleveland Press, while on vacation in New Mexico, somehow stumbled upon one of the biggest, most secret stories of the day.
John Raper, a reporter for the Cleveland Press, while on vacation in New Mexico, somehow stumbled upon one of the biggest, most secret stories of the day.
interesting. I wonder how one overcomes an enemy when that enemy is celebrated and allowed to live in your cities and towns, and work in the various government agencies that are supposed to protect us from such enemies.
When Truman told Stalin we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force. The Russian Premier showed no special interest.
All he said was he was glad to hear it, and hoped we would make “good use of it against the Japanese.”
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Russian scientist were already developing the atomic technology because they had a Russian spy- Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs that helped build the bomb in Los Alamos, and already told Stalin more about it than President Truman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies
Fuchs spent 9 years in jail from 1950-1959 for his part in giving the bomb to the Soviets.
He retired to East Germany after his release.
Fuchs wasn’t the only one. For example, Ted Hall, a leftist as well as a physicist, was also selling out his country. His justification was that no nation should ever be allowed to be the only one with the bomb.
I remember watching a “Nova” documentary about this, back when that program was still worth viewing. A number of the Manhattan Project personnel who were still alive at the time were interviewed. One scientist in particular was quite angry that Hall wasn’t executed for treason.
In the popular press Joe McCarthy is still presented as a paranoid red-baiter whenever the subject comes up. Whenever the left feels like marginalizing or minimizing anyone they compare them to Joe McCarthy. No surprise to hear Trump compared to Joe McCarthy the other day.
The leftists are masters at disparaging and demonizing anyone who does fall in line with their ideology. Too bad the right does not learn from them.
Robert Oppenheimer was often viewed with suspicion because he and his brother Frank consorted with some rather unsavory characters before WW II.
Gen. Leslie Groves had selected Oppie for the Manhattan Project. During the vetting, the head of security, Boris Pash, had some question about Oppie’s affiliations, though his loyalties weren’t suspect. All that came to haunt Oppie and his brother during the early years of the Cold War.
Frank was fired from his job because of his political leanings. I also heard that when the Soviets detonated their first nuclear bomb, Oppie quickly became suspect.
After the end of the war, Oppie himself expressed his misgivings about the hydrogen bomb and was stripped of his security clearance. This was partly because Lewis Strauss, head of the Atomic Energy Commission, didn’t like Oppie and, it was rumoured, comments by Edward Teller, who held Oppie in disdain.
Joe was bang on.. We need more Joes
in Mark Bourrie’s “The Fog of War” a book about press censorship in Canada during World War II, the author tells the story of a Saskatchewan chiropractor who had picked up details of the Manhattan Project from uranium industry people and told a big Social Credit convention at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto all about it.
I heard a story about Stanley Kubrick after he made “Dr. Strangelove”. He didn’t have access to the classified equipment that was inside a B-52, but, after some research of certain public sources, he was able to surmise what some of that was. Apparently, someone from the Pentagon paid him a visit and asked how he found out.
I had a similar thing happen to me at what was, I recall, the last airshow at CFB Namao, just north of Edmonton.
I was chatting with some USAF airmen and I just happened to mention the name of a certain aircraft. The reaction was: “How did you know about that?” I explained that I was a member of a certain technical society and I read about it in its magazine, a publication which many libraries carry and which anyone can read.
I’m not sure if they believed me.
The first laboratory splitting of the uranium atom by Hahn and Strassmann in Dec 1938
along with the Jan 1929 Lise Meitner/Otto Frisch theoretical working out of what had
transpired was the first hard evidence that a practical path to achieving nuclear fission
was even a remote possibility within decades going forward.
The irony was that the Manhattan Project was so compartmentalized with security taboos
creating bottlenecks and confusion everywhere that it was traitors like Klaus Fuchs
wandering around breaking the rules by keeping everyone informed about developments
that got the bomb completed in time to end the war.
Many people knew there were huge installations like Oak Ridge being built around the US
for war purposes unknown. At one time the “customers” of the Tennessee Valley Authority
alone were drawing 14% of the whole overnight base load power for the entire country.
Edward Teller’s was also one of the original signatures of the “Oregon Petition” in 1997, a “consensus” of CAGW skeptics.
nold;
The communist were well established before Joe McCarthy. Ronnie Reagan had been fighting them in Hollywood for years before the hearings. Anyone who does not think this is all directed are very naïve. The inability of western governments to defend themselves against this subversion never ceases to surprise me.
“…I remember watching a “Nova” documentary about this, back when that program was still worth viewing…”
Same here.
now some of the new Nova shows are full of pro multiculturalism propaganda and other such leftist crap.
About a year or two ago PBS started to change, it had always leaned a bit left but now it is much worse. The news hour too, they are obviously pro-illegals, pro-Blacklivesmatter etc etc
They still occasionally have more neutral and informative stuff, but it is sad that they have been that infected by that terrible disease that is leftism or I should say modern leftism.
Now I can rarely watch the News Hour nor Nova…there is way too much pro-left propaganda…now PBS even repeats a few lies, and “facts” that the left made up.
When they talk of Trump they have stern faces as if they were talking about a flood that has killed tens of thousands of people.
They sometimes have a muslim woman with her head covered deliver papers to the news anchor while the credits are rolling…that is a not so subtle way of brainwashing the audience into loving muslim immigrants.
I was seeing things that were more and more shocking and more and more disgusting on PBS.
I almost stopped watching completely…and to think about 30 years ago I sent them money a couple times…
Leftism as it is today is a mental disease, and it is going viral. everything is getting infected from cereal ads to PBS “documentaries”
I hope Trump will cut PBS budget to zero.
I hardly watch it any more, either.
I’ve been slowly cutting back on my financial support over the years. I still donate money as there are still some shows that are worth watching, even on “Nova” (its documentary about Neil Armstrong was absolutely terrific!). Eventually, I’ll stop contributing altogether.
“Newshour” has been a write-off for me ever since the original production company (McNeil/Lehrer Productions, I think it was called) was no longer involved.
The days when it was the thinker’s network are long gone.
And don’t forget the heavy water used in producing the bomb came from Canada. CM&S (Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company, later to become Cominco) built a tower at Warfield, B. C., in the midst of its fertilizer plant there (remember Elephant Brand fertilizer?). The site was chosen because CM&S had access to cheap electricity because of the dams it’s subsidiary, West Kootenay Power and Light, had on the Kootenay River. The whole Trail smelter – at that time the largest one in the British Empire – was considered an essential industrial site during the war, with barbed wires and guard towers all round. But I’ve often wondered how many locals knew about that “secret” tower up on the Warfield bench.