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From 12/21/1949 ( ) To 10/15/1999 ( ) is 18195 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/27/2015 ( ) is 18195 days
From 9/2/1945 ( The Second World War ends ) To 6/27/1995 ( launch and then the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 - for me after 05/10/2006: includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 18195 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/27/2015 ( ) is 18195 days
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/PROJECTS/FTRIALS/Rosenb/ROS_BFUC.HTM
Klaus Fuchs
Although he received a far more lenient sentence than the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs provided information to the Soviets which was of considerably greater significance.
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs was born in Germany in 1911. As a young man, he was interested in politics and became a member of the German Communist Party. As the Nazi's power grew in Germany, the Gestapo began rounding up Communists, forcing Fuchs to leave his country or be imprisoned. Fleeing through France, Klaus Fuchs made his way to England, where he resettled. As a German refugee, Klaus Fuchs received some aid in England, including a scholarship to Bristol University. By 1937, Fuchs had graduated from Bristol with a doctorate in Physics. He decided to continue his education with advanced studies in Physics at Edinburgh University.
By 1940, the war in Europe had escalated and Britain began to fear for its national security. All Germans in England were taken into custody and placed into internment camps, where they were to be held until the end of the war. Klaus Fuchs was taken to a camp located in Quebec, Canada where he would live for several months. A prominent faculty member at Edinburgh University, Professor Max Born, intervened on Fuchs behalf and was able to obtain special treatment for Fuchs. By the spring of 1941, Fuchs was once again engaged in his studies at the University. Within months, Fuchs would be asked to work on the British "Tube Alloys" program in Birmingham, the British atomic bomb research project.
In 1943, Fuchs was transferred to the Columbia University in New York City where he began to work on the Manhattan Project, the American atomic bomb program. Klaus Fuch's work with the Americans eventually took him to the Los Alamos, New Mexico research facility, where Klaus Fuchs was regarded as an excellent scientist and researcher, a serious man who focused with great intensity on his work. No one suspected that Fuchs had been transferring very detailed notes on the bomb project to a Soviet courier named "Raymond", who was actually Harry Gold.
By 1948, the Venona cables were beginning to be deciphered. One of these cables was a report on the progress of the atomic bomb research written by Fuchs himself. It was not evident at first whether Fuchs had written the report for the Soviets or if it had been acquired by the Soviet's through some other means. Either way, it was proof that the Russians had penetrated the secrecy of the Manhattan Project. By January 1949 suspicion of Fuch's involvement in espionage had grown. The FBI confronted him with accusations of spy activity at the Harwell Atomic Research facility in England, where Fuchs was the head of the theoretical division. Fuchs soon confessed to his part in the theft of atomic secrets. On March 1, 1950, Fuchs was found guilty of communicating information to the Soviets concerning atomic research. He was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. After serving nine years of his sentence, Fuchs was released. He illegally relocated in East Germany, where he was granted citizenship and resumed his scientific career and lectured in Physics.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/klaus-fuchs-released/print
HISTORY
After only nine years in prison, Klaus Fuchs, the German-born Los Alamos scientist whose espionage helped the USSR build their first atomic and hydrogen bombs, is released from a British prison. Fuchs immediately left Britain for communist East Germany, where he resumed his scientific career.
As a student in prewar Germany, Fuchs joined the German Communist Party in 1930 but in 1934 was forced to flee after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler came to power. Settling in Britain, he became a brilliant young scientist and was recruited by the British military after the outbreak of World War II. Despite his communist past, he was granted security clearance. In 1943, Fuchs was sent with other British scientists to the United States to join the top secret U.S. atomic program. Eventually stationed at atomic development headquarters in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Fuchs became an important figure in the program.
Unbeknownst to anyone at Los Alamos, he made contact with a Soviet spy soon after his arrival and offered precise information about the program, including a blueprint of the “Fat Man” atomic bomb later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and everything that the Los Alamos scientists knew about the hypothesized hydrogen bomb. After the war, Fuchs returned to England, where he continued his atomic work and Soviet espionage until December 21, 1949, when a British intelligence officer informed the physicist that he was suspected of having given classified nuclear weapons information to the USSR. The discovery of Fuch’s espionage came four months after the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first atomic bomb.
Fuchs pleaded guilty and on March 1, 1950, after a two-hour trial, was convicted. By British law he could be sentenced to only 14 years in prison because the USSR was not an official British enemy at the time of his arrest. After nine years, he was released from prison for good behavior and immediately left Britain for communist East Germany. He died in 1988.
The revelation of Fuchs’ espionage was a major factor leading to President Harry Truman’s approval of massive funding for the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The first U.S. hydrogen bomb was successfully detonated in 1952. Three years later, the Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb on the same principle of radiation implosion.
Stargate SG-1
"Past and Present"
TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999
KE'RA
Tell me of Linea.
DANIEL
Well, uh, basically, we met her on a visit to another planet, during which we were imprisoned, unjustly, and Linea helped us escape.
KE'RA
Surely there is nothing wrong with that, if you were imprisoned unjustly.
DANIEL
Well, she was imprisoned justly. It was only after we escaped that we learned this nice, older lady we thought Linea was, was in fact a very, very bad, older lady, who had committed terrible crimes.
KE'RA
What crimes?
DANIEL
She created a plague that almost wiped out an entire people. They called her the Destroyer of Worlds.
previously here by me, Kerry Burgess:
From 6/19/1960 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"::"Letter of Credit" ) To 6/1/1994 ( from internet: Sydnee Scofield ) is 12400 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Past and Present" ) is 12400 days
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