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by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan


  He complained to the SED: Hoffmann, “Fritz Lange, Klaus Fuchs, and the Remigration of Scientists to East Germany,” 419.

  a cheap and plentiful supply: STASI, MfS AIM no. 8234/73, Teil P/1, memo, unsigned, 9.1.1959.

  Klaus informed Werner: STASI, “Sonderabt. Ltr.,” Werner memo, 1.23.1964.

  Klaus did add an interesting aside: STASI, “Sonderabt. Ltr.,” Werner memo, 1.23.1964.

  a quick political evaluation: STASI, “Sonderabt. Ltr.,” “Schwarzdorn” memo, 4.25.1965; STASI, MfS AIM no. 8234/73, Teil P/1, Maye report, 12.4.1961.

  his minder wrote: STASI, MfS AIM no. 8234/73, Teil P/1, Maye report, 6.1.1973.

  Klaus explained that at Harwell: FAM, Fuchs, interview with Sonntag, 1.8.1987.

  he repudiated Stalinism: STASI, Klaus Fuchs, taped interview, 1983.

  Klaus and Grete experienced life: Heidi Holzer, interview with author, Sept. 2013.

  Klaus never used his position: Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, interview with author, Nov. 2018.

  Released from Westborough Hospital: Marianna Holzer, interview with author, May 2013.

  On weekends, Heidi: Heidi Holzer, interview with author, Sept .2013.

  His funeral, a solemn state affair: Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, interview with author, Oct. 2012.

  music accompanied every movement: BA, DY30, 9819, file on funeral of Klaus Fuchs.

  The disintegration would: Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, interview with author, Nov. 18, 2019.

  EPILOGUE: REMEMBRANCES, BERLIN, MARCH 1989

  Friedrichsfelde Cemetery: Feklisov, Man Behind the Rosenbergs, 227–31. This contains all information on meeting with Grete.

  Feklisov recorded in his memoir: Feklisov, Man Behind the Rosenbergs, 232.

  he offered a simple moral reckoning: Feklisov, Man Behind the Rosenbergs, 232.

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  Index

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  Aachen, 71

  Academy of Arts (Berlin), 350

  Academy of Fine Arts (Leipzig), 22, 24

  Acheson, Dean, 318

  Air Force, U.S., 1

  Air Ministry, 130, 132, 133–35

  Alamogordo test. See Trinity test

  “Alexander.” See Kremer, Simon

  Anderson, John, 97, 98, 107, 119, 141, 142

  Andes, 143

  anti-Semitism, 107, 204

  Arandora Star, 111–12, 119

  Arlington Hall Station, 3, 5–6, 189–90, 292–93

  arms race, 169–71

  Army Air Force, U.S., 168

  Army Corps of Engineers, U.S., 143–44

  Arnold, Henry, 202–6

  background of, 202

  Erna and, 215, 216, 224, 251–53, 254, 261–62, 279, 337

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 204–6, 208–9, 219, 229–30, 232–33, 238–39, 251–54, 258–59, 269–70, 323, 326–27

  Fuchs’s trial, 289, 295

  at Harwell, 190, 191, 219, 228, 249, 278

  surveillance, 202–6, 208–9, 212, 213, 216, 221, 229–30, 238–39, 258–59, 261–62, 269–70, 300

  Atlantic Charter, 7, 140–41, 176, 198

  atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 2, 165, 166, 168, 267, 321

  atomic bomb research. See also Central Institute for Nuclear Physics; Los Alamos; and specific scientists

  of Chinese, 344

  nuclear fission, 132–34, 136, 137–39, 149

  nuclear weapon design, 157–58, 164, 173

  Quebec Agreement between U.S. and U.K., 141–42, 182, 198, 201

  of Soviet Union, 1–2, 169–70, 219, 266, 267–68, 322

  Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act), 169, 172, 178, 182–83, 262, 318, 324

  Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell Laboratory), 176, 177–79, 181–85, 189–90, 193, 202–9, 211–17

  attack on Pearl Harbor, 141

  Attenberger, Lisa, 42, 56, 66

  Attlee, Clement, 2, 4, 175, 182, 247, 300, 301, 304

  Austria, 92, 97

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, 19, 23, 25

  Bad Freienwalde, 69–70

  Bad Pyrmont, 93, 186

  Barbusse, Henri, 72, 74

  Barwich, Heinz, 335–36

  Battlefields Park, 120–21

  Battle of Dunkirk, 13

  Battle of the Atlantic, 125

  Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 114

  Behrens, Derek, 183–84, 185, 205, 278

  Belgian Congo uranium mine, 318

  Bell Cinema, 152

  Bell for Adano, A (Hersey), 160

  Bentley, Elizabeth, 173, 180, 190, 307, 309

  Beria, Lavrentiy, 268

  Berlin Police, 60, 61

  Berlin Wall, 344, 350

  Bethe, Hans

  background of, 150

  at Cornell, 178

  Fuchs’s loyalties, 152, 280

  at Los Alamos, 150, 152, 157, 158, 160, 178, 350

  at Odenwaldschule, 150

  opposition to use of atomic bomb, 170

  Peierls’s letters to, 277–78, 287

  Birmingham, 65, 135–36, 139–40, 200. See also University of Birmingham

  Blackett, Patrick, 82

  Blitz, the, 2–3, 12–13, 106–7, 124, 125, 131

  Blitzkrieg, 94, 106, 119, 124

  Bohr, Niels, 237, 277–78

  Born, Gustav, 135, 281

  Born, Hedwig “Hedi,” 88–89, 94, 97, 282, 334

  Born, Irene, 88

  Born, Max, 158–59

  background of, 87, 88

  Fuchs’s and Kellerman’s internment, 97, 99, 107, 119–20

  Fuchs’s atomic research, 134–35, 136

  Fuchs’s spying, 281, 282

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 88–89, 94, 95, 96, 107–8, 119–20, 129–30, 175, 237, 281, 282, 292, 334

  Goeppert Mayer and, 158, 161

  Mott and, 78, 86

  Teller and, 151, 158–59, 161

  at University of Edinburgh, 86, 87–89, 94, 96, 129–30, 175, 237, 282

  at University of Göttingen, 78, 86, 87, 88

  Weisskopf and, 161

  Bow Street Magistrate’s Court, 288–89

  Brecht, Bertolt, 41–42

  breeder reactors, 342, 344–45, 346

  Bristol Evening Post, 85

  Bristol. See University of Bristol

  British Communist Party, 4, 10

  British internment, 11–12, 97–99, 101–8

  British Overseas Supply Company, 225, 229

  British Society of Friends, 68, 78

  Brixton Prison, 276, 278–80, 281–82, 288, 290, 293–94, 297

  Brookings Institution, 91

  Brooklyn Museum of Art, 152

  Buddhist Society of England, 271

  Buneman, Mary, 253, 254

  background of, 179

  Fuchs’s relationship with, 178–79, 184, 185, 190, 205, 214, 216, 262–63

  Buneman, Micky, 185

  Bunem
an, Oscar

  background of, 179

  at Harwell, 205–6, 253, 278, 287, 303

  at Los Alamos, 178–79, 184

  MI5 investigation of, 278

  Burgess, Guy, 284, 301, 319

  Burroughs, William S., 157

  Burt, Leonard, 271, 273–74, 276–78, 288, 289

  Butler, Rab, 325–26

  California Institute of Technology, 170

  Cambridge Five, 284, 301

  Camp L, 75, 114–23, 301–2, 323

  Camp N, 123–24, 291, 301, 302, 323

  Canada internment, 106–7, 113–24, 301–2

  Carnegie Hall, 148

  Carnegie Trust, 89, 96, 129

  Catchpool, Corder, 279

  Central Institute for Nuclear Physics (ZfK), 335–39, 344

  Chadwick, James, 237

  Chamberlain, Neville, 60, 92, 94, 96

  Chambers, Whittaker, 286

  Channel Islands, 106

  Chaplin, Charlie, 26

  Charles I of England, 180

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 19

  Chinese atomic research, 344

  Churchill, Winston

  Atlantic Charter, 7, 140–41, 176, 198

  atomic research, 134, 138

  general election of 1945, 175

  Iron Curtain Speech, 4

  Potsdam Conference, 168–69, 175

  Quebec Agreement, 141–42, 182, 198, 201

  war leadership of, 94, 96, 97, 98, 134, 138, 140–41, 165

  Cimperman, John, 293, 304

  Clarendon Laboratory, 134

  Clegg, Hugh, 305–6, 308, 310–11

  Cockcroft, John, 237, 342

  Fuchs and Royal Society, 184

  Fuchs’s resignation, 248–50, 251–52

  Fuchs’s arrest, 274

  Fuchs’s interrogation and confession, 238, 242, 258, 259, 260, 264, 271

  at Harwell, 176, 177–78, 184, 216, 234

  Collard, John, 206, 208

  Columbia University, 144, 150, 158, 161, 236

  Communist International, 61, 72

  Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

  election of 1930, 25

  election of 1932, 28–29, 39, 40, 43, 47

  election of 1933, 62–64

  Nazi era, 60, 61, 66, 67, 71–72, 78, 91, 140

  Weimar Republic years, 25, 27, 32, 40–41, 42, 45–46

 

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