Ex‐Los Alamos Scientist Reveals True Wartime Role as ‘Scientist X’;
Abstract
Ex-Los Alamos Scientist Reveals True Wartime Role as 'Scientist X' n PHYSICS TODAY for July 1999, the lead story in 'Washington Reports" (page 39) bears the title uNew Book Unmasks Scientist X as Spy, but Facts of Case Tell a Different Story." As that Scientist X himself, though never a KGB or any other brand of spy, I applaud the precision of the laconic but friendly heading. Unhappily, some details given in Irwin Goodwin's story add to the existing mythology...