Historical Dictionary of Atomic Espionage2012197Glenmore S. Trenear‐Harvey. Historical Dictionary of Atomic Espionage. Lanham, MD and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press 2011. xix+243 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8108 7180 9 (print); 978 0 8108 7383 4 (e‐book) £44.95 $75 Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Eric Jukes
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Espionage

Catching an Atom Spy: MI5 and the Investigation of Klaus Fuchs

2010 ◽  
pp. 554-567
Author(s):  
Timothy Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Klaus Fuchs ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Atomic Espionage ◽  
Signals Intelligence

This article focuses on M15 organization and Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist and Soviet “Atom Spy” who was arrested in 1950 and served fourteen years for offences related to atomic espionage. It examines how Fuchs was identified as an “Atom Spy” in 1949 and describes the MI5's investigation, which ended in the early 1950 with the successful arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of this highly significant Cold War figure. Key issues discussed in this article include the difficulties encountered by MI5 and the budding British atomic program in the sphere of security. It also discusses the role of Signals intelligence (SIGINT) in the investigation of Fuchs, and the high-risk but ultimately successful approach taken by MI5's key interrogator, William Skardon. This case study highlights both the unparalleled level of international intelligence cooperation between the British agencies and their American counterparts, which made the resolution of this case possible, and some of the frailties in the Anglo-American alliance that were brought to the fore by the exposure of Fuchs as an Atom Spy.

“Black Film” and the Bomb

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
National Security ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Atomic Espionage

In the prototypical ‘50s nuclear noir, the protagonist is an elite scientist—a nuclear physicist, to be precise—who’s either overtly opposed to or intimately aligned with the nation state and its institutional agencies. Although the FBI, as in the anticommunist noir, is the dominant investigative figure in these espionage films, it’s dramatically subordinated to other, more pressing issues and agencies such as treason, homosexuality, and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) (in The Thief), Native Americans, national security, and the nuclear family (in The Atomic City), and bombshells, bikinis, and “B” movies (in Shack Out on 101). While City of Fear is not an atomic espionage film—call it a nuclear-epidemiological noir--the film’s representation of the LAPD and metropolitan Los Angeles as well as the rhetoric of disease and contamination, contagion and radioactivity, renders it a quintessential late ‘50s “B” noir.

The special relationship? Ministers, atomic espionage and Anglo-American relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. B. Lomas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transatlantic Relations ◽  
Klaus Fuchs ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Atomic Espionage ◽  
First Time ◽  
Bruno Pontecorvo ◽  
Shed Light

Chapter Five studies Ministerial reactions to the spy scandals that threatened Anglo-American nuclear exchanges. Considering the cases of Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, Bruno Pontecorvo, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, it argues that Ministers were sensitive to claims from the United States that Britain was weak in the field of security. After the Fuchs and Pontecorvo scandals, Ministers reacted quickly to repair any damage to transatlantic relations by introducing new security procedures known as ‘Positive Vetting’. The chapter also uses newly released archival material to shed light on Ministerial reactions to the disapperance of the Foreign Office diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, in the spring of 1951. Their defection provoked widespread outrage and, once again, prompted a review of security in government, on this occasion the Foreign Office, on the instructions of the Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, now Foreign Secretary, which is explored here for the first time.

The Atomic Espionage Cases

2009 ◽  
pp. 138-191
Author(s):  
John Earl Haynes ◽  
Harvey Klehr
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Espionage
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