- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226816647
- eISBN:
- 9780226816661
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226816661.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter emphasizes Bruno Pontecorvo's career after his flight, and also reviews the proliferation of accounts of his antics in espionage literature. The new accounts of the atom spy Pontecorvo ...
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This chapter emphasizes Bruno Pontecorvo's career after his flight, and also reviews the proliferation of accounts of his antics in espionage literature. The new accounts of the atom spy Pontecorvo helped to alert public opinion about the paucity of security regulations and the need to tighten them. His presence in Moscow made atomic scientists eager to get restricted information on anything he knew about atomic energy. There was a connection between Pontecorvo's presence in Russia and with the Soviets' attempts to learn more about how to find uranium. The analysis of developments in neutron well logging verified the importance of his research on prospecting problems. Ronald Reed concluded that the hypothesis that Pontecorvo was a spy could be made, but that there was not sufficient evidence to support it.Less
This chapter emphasizes Bruno Pontecorvo's career after his flight, and also reviews the proliferation of accounts of his antics in espionage literature. The new accounts of the atom spy Pontecorvo helped to alert public opinion about the paucity of security regulations and the need to tighten them. His presence in Moscow made atomic scientists eager to get restricted information on anything he knew about atomic energy. There was a connection between Pontecorvo's presence in Russia and with the Soviets' attempts to learn more about how to find uranium. The analysis of developments in neutron well logging verified the importance of his research on prospecting problems. Ronald Reed concluded that the hypothesis that Pontecorvo was a spy could be made, but that there was not sufficient evidence to support it.