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To: nihil who wrote (4636)	10/26/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

You know, of course, that Comrade Stalin had help from Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Bruno Pontecorvo, Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, and other scientists from America and Great Britain who were kind enough to share our atomic secrets with him. Thoughtful, weren't they?

To: nihil who wrote (4636)	10/27/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 6418

interesting, that is earlier than I had thought. But in context of the original issue of whether Soviet work on the atom bomb would have been a deterent to a 1945 attack against the Soviets it wouldn't have changes the decision making process. If the west doesn't know that Soviet espionage had become aware of the atom bomb and the Soviets were beginning to direct efforts in that area then it isn't a deterent. It's like the scene in Dr Strangelove where the Americans scream at the Soviet ambassador that how can their doomsday bomb be a deterent if they hadn't told us they had it :)