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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 Relationship Between Sogat and Sogat

By 19 38, ursula had begun running operations herself. Before going to switzerland, she recruited two british communists. The demands on ursula required both a genius for compartmentalizing the different areas of her life and intense psychological stamina. She juggled her rival commitments to husband and lover, bourgeois social engagements and communist subversion,. Her baby and her underground work. Under the twin pressures of espionage and infidelity, her marriage was falling apart.

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