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History tv, every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Americasreated by Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Next on American History tv, Nancy Thorndike greenspan talks about her book atomics by the dark lives of klaus fuchs. The Leon Levy Center for biography hosted this event and provided the video. She explains how she discovered klaus fuchs while researching her previous book. Lets go at it. I was asking you why klaus ...

A flight. Western media speculation of. The world this is or to international always. It is day 12 nation wide on rest in the wake of the disputed election earlier this month large crowds on both sides of the divide are making their voices heard those who support president Alexander Lukashenko and those who want to see him. People here are chanting for the president to resign in the city of goma but in contrast youve got a convoy of the president s supporters driving past them with the official ...

Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the info...

Mostly in dayton, i guess, but also in oak ridge. Oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the information they needed to advance their work on the atomic. Boomer . We bomb. We have a ...

Why dont we invite the people who knew four of the spies at los alamos and george coval who was mostly at dayton, i guess, but also at oak ridge. Robert s. Norris whose book is the definitive biography of general Leslie Groves and we have copies of it out there for you. Hell talk about how groves took the made basically an intelligence revolution in taking security measures to new heights. And yet how the project had these spice that were instrumental in giving kirchitof and the soviets the info...

Youll find a kaleidoscope of voices which makes this a very rich tapestry. Each of us experience the same event in a different way, so each of these individuals experienced the Manhattan Project in their own, unique way. Cynthia kelly with the atomic heritage foundation. Thank you for joining us on American History tv. Cindy thank you very much. Something about your background, where youre born, education . Benjamin my parents who were russianjewish immigrants who came to america just before wor...

I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentalization, which was the bedrock way that he organized things. You only needed to know what you needed to know and nothing else. So that kept everyone limited to a certain spot. And i characterized it as a kind of pyramid. It wa...

I think that groves through his obsession with secrecy and not letting any information out really was one of the architects of not only the Manhattan Project architecture of secrecy, but what came afterwards and were still living with today. Were talking about compartmentalization, which was the bedrock way that he organized things. You only needed to know what you needed to know and nothing else. So that kept everyone limited to a certain spot. And i characterized it as a kind of pyramid. It wa...

History. A beautiful indiansummer day in october 12th, 2005, a day in beautiful Indian Summer day in the bay area is tarnished by black smoke. Pouring out of a warehouse invilin villejo. The fire chief Douglas Robertson is one of dozens of firefighters en route. We could not believe what we were seeing. It looked like a 747 had crashed. Its a big huge column of smoke. Inside the warehouse, some of napa county wines are stacked floor to ceiling. There are more than 4 million bottles in all. Now w...

Do you know him . very slightly and i dont think he knew me at all. You have to understand that i was a very insignificant player. Man,s working for dick fein that is how i knew people at all. I was working for him at a very basic level. And i a desk calculator did that for him a lot and if he inman had thek fe kind of electronic, programmable electric calculator that you can buy today for 50, he would not all. Needed me at luckily for me, he did need that, so i had the opportunity to be with hi...