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The Traitors: The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May

In this book Alan Moorehead gives the first full account of Nunn May, Fuchs and Pontecorvo, their double lives, their personalities, the methods employed by the security officers in bringing the first two to justice, and the circumstances of the disappearance of the third. Since the invention of the atomic bomb, treachery has come closer to the lives of ordinary people than ever before. Here Mr. Moorehead examines the mind of the twentieth-century traitor in particular relation to these three men. The book contains much important material never before published, and the case of Klaus Fuchs is studied in great detail. Step by step, we are shown how this brilliant scientist, believing he held the fate of humanity in his hands, arrogated to himself the right to settle its destiny, only to realise in the end that his crime of treason had served no good purpose. Mr. Moorehead sees remarkably clearly into the minds of Fuchs and his chief interrogator, Mr. William Skardon, and there is a most penetrating description of the strange intimacy which in a prolonged duel of such a kind grows up between two implacable opponents. Almost as fascinating is the account of life inside Harwell, the At

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