Over the next two decades RW
published several revised and updated versions of this work. In 1956 Pan Books
(London) published a new edition of The Meaning of Treason in which West eliminated some discussion...
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29 August 1949: The Soviet Union tested a plutonium implosion...
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29 August 1949
The Soviet Union tested a plutonium implosion weapon; its development of nuclear capacity this year dislodged the United States from its position as the world's only nuclear power.
Sayle, Murray. “Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 3-11.
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Johnson, Chalmers. “Big Bucks, Big Bangs”. London Review of Books, 20 July 2006, pp. 19-21.
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January 1950: Klaus Fuchs, a one-time refugee now head...
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January 1950
Klaus Fuchs
, a one-time refugee now head of theoretical physics at the new Atomic Energy Research Establishment
at Harwell in Oxfordshire, was arrested for passing British and US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
