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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 Life of a Spy

mac intyre was drawn to his most recent subject, ursula kacinski. She's a pro she regards being a spy as a vocation. For the first half of her career, she was a ferocious opponent of fashism. If she had been captured, she would have been deported back to naty germany with her family and they would all have been murdered. But which would have taken precedence if it had come to that? One of the things that i think troubled her for the rest of her life.

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