When Albert Einstein was asked why it was that we could discover how to split the atom but had difficulty in overseeing atomic technology, he famously replied, "That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics".
The Nazis' corporate partner in their atom program was Degussa, a multinational corporation that continues, the filmmakers say, to peddle atomic technology to governments like those of Iraq and Pakistan.
According to decrypted Soviet-intelligence communications that were released in the nineteen-nineties, Wallace argued for the sharing of atomic technology and asked Gorsky for help in defeating the anti-Soviet faction in Truman's Administration.
The Swiss authorities on Friday released from jail the last of three family members suspected of smuggling atomic technology to Libya and Iran as part of the nuclear black market of Abdul Qadeer Khan, officials disclosed.
Both focus attention on the human toll of atomic technology, in contrast to the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, where models of nuclear weapons are displayed with minimal reference to the actual damage that their production and use have engendered.
Swiss authorities have released from jail a man suspected of smuggling atomic technology to Libya and Iran as part of the nuclear black market of Abdul Qadeer Khan, officials and family members said Monday.
In a BBC interview on Monday, a senior Saudi prince warned that any terms world powers grant Iran under a nuclear deal will be sought by Saudi Arabia and other countries, risking wider proliferation of atomic technology.
Court records that were made public in the prosecution of the Tinner family in Switzerland, a supplier of nuclear equipment to Libya, Iran and other countries as part of the Pakistani scientist A. Q . Khans black market in atomic technology, made it clear that the C.I.A. had recruited insiders to provide the Iranians with faulty goods.
So with olive branch offers from Obama and Brown, and Sarkozy's national nuclear industry already in a corporate interlock with the Iranians with the very sensitive atomic technology that has raised so many diplomatic hackles, there now seems real opportunity for progress.
