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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