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QUOTATION NOTES
Prologue: May 22, 1950
All quotes from Gold's testimony in
Scope of Soviet Activity
.
Skinny Superhero
“Are you comfortable”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“My escort went for a walk”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“Forgetful Prof Parks Girl”: S.F.
Chronicle
, Feb. 14, 1934.
“very frail, very pink-cheeked”: Rhodes,
Atomic Bomb
.
“A repulsively good little boy”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“He generally would answer”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“Oh, come now”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“He spoke quite rapidly”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“Not that one”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“The trouble is”: Goodchild,
J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
“Beginning in late 1936”:
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
The U Business
“Perhaps you can suggest”: Rhodes,
Atom Bomb
.
“I don't believe it”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“We walked up and down”: Libby,
Uranium People.
“Yes, that is what I mean”: Rhodes,
Atom Bomb
.
“I feel as if I had caught”: Jungk.
A Thousand Suns
.
“Oh, what idiots”: Libby,
Uranium People.
“Bohr has just come in”: Rhodes,
Atom Bomb
.
“In the second section”: Weiner,
Alvarez Interview
.
“That's impossible”: Rhodes,
Atom Bomb
.
“The U business”: Smith,
Letters and Recollections
.
“Within perhaps a week”: Rhodes,
Atom Bomb
.
“I'll cook them”: Shirer,
Rise and Fall
.
Finding Einstein
“the cottage of Dr. Moore”: Szilard,
His Version
.
“Perhaps I misunderstood”: Jungk.
A Thousand Suns
.
“Say, do you by any chance”: Szilard,
His Version
.
“I hadn't thought of that”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“And Einstein was just”: Wigner,
Recollections
.
“Alex, what are you up to”: Rhodes,
Atomic Bomb
.
“The element uranium”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“Alex, what you are after”: Rhodes,
Atomic Bomb
.
Tradecraft
“Since the outbreak”: Powers,
Heisenberg's War
.
“You'd never in a million”: Hornblum,
Harry Gold
.
“Black was waiting”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
“I am a Communist”:
Scope of Soviet Activity
.
“an almost puppy-like”: Hornblum,
Harry Gold
.
“And that, is how I began”:
Scope of Soviet Activity
.
“I'm giving you orders”: Hornblum,
Harry Gold
.
“What the hell”:
Scope of Soviet Activity
.
“They had decided to drop”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
Rapid Rupture
“We often tailed”: Feklisov,
Man Behind
.
“Many of the men”:
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
“After breakfast”: Oral History:
Pearl Harbor Remembered
“You gave the right”: Shirer,
Rise and Fall
.
“They caught our ships”: Persico,
Secret War
.
“No matter how long”: National Archives.
“Just a few weeks”: Serber,
Peace and War
.
“We were aware”: Oppenheimer,
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Norway Connection
All quotes from: Haukalid,
Skis Against the Atom.
Enormoz
“I hoped to look through”: Holoway,
Stalin and the Bomb
.
“Germany and the USA”: Haynes,
Spies
.
“It was difficult because”: Feklisov,
Man Behind
.
“Of the leads we have”: Haynes,
Spies
.
On the Cliff
“He took me to the majestic bluffs”: Churchill,
Hinge of Fate
.
“He invited me to feel”: Churchill,
Hinge of Fate
.
“I was, like every other”: Groves,
Now It Can Be Told.
“He had no hesitation”: Norris,
Racing for the Bomb
.
“Groves is the biggest”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“I was not happy”: Groves,
Now It Can Be Told.
“We don't know”: Goodchild,
J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
“A major change”:
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
“He's a genius”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“No one with whom”: Groves,
Now It Can Be Told.
“He had, after all”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“It is desired that clearance”: Groves,
Now It Can Be Told.
“permanently incapacitated”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
International Gangster School
“Ruined houses”: Haukalid,
Skis Against.
“It was not at all like”: Gallagher,
Assault
.
“During a field exercise”: Haukelid,
Skis Against.
“Interesting”: Gallagher,
Assault
.
Gliders Down
All quotes from Gallagher,
Assault in Norway
.
Quiet Fellow
“It was pleasant”: Werner,
Sonya's Report.
“The spelling”: Frisch,
What I Remember
.
“I accepted”: Fuchs's
Statement.
“A very nice”: Moss,
Klaus Fuchs
.
“When I learned about”: Fuchs's
Statement.
“Once Klaus gave me”: Werner,
Sonya's Report.
“Important, very valuable”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
“The organizational pace”: Haynes,
Spies
.
“One evening in New York”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
“I, personally know very little”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“Do you know any”: Herken,
Brotherhood
.
“On thinking the matter”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“I saw George Eltenton”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
“That would be a frightful”: Jungk,
A Thousand Suns
.
“That was the end”: Rhodes,
Dark Sun
.
“no chance whatsoever”: Herken,
Brotherhood
.
Disappearing Scientists
“This will never do”: Smith,
Letters and Recollections
.
“If you go on up”: Bird,
American Prometheus
.
“We didn't want to”: Jungk,
A Thousand Suns
.
“This is the place”: Conant,
109 East Palac
e.
“a policy of absolutely”: Smith,
Letters and Recollections
.
“How would you like”: Lamont,
Day of Trinity
.
“People I knew well”: Ulam,
Adventures
.
“What's it all about”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.
“I traveled all over”:
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
.
“Almost everyone knew”: Kelly,
Manhattan Project
.