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11. The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Secret Files on Ursula Kachinsky

I had access to all the m i five files on her. There are 79, belie ine are not 79 different files on different members of the kachinsky family,. including a pretty voluminous set on ursula herself. And that's an extraordinary sort of sea change in british official secrecy. It's really only quite recently that britain began to declassify its security service files.

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