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“... between the US Government and advocates of the freedom to encrypt inevitable. Diffie and Landau offer a wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide to the power struggles now going on within the constitutional, legal and technical tangles of this confrontation. On the face of ...”

“... fragment is of the unfinished novel Sanditon. Another substantial fragment is the early Lady Susan, and a third is The Watsons, also abandoned in manuscript. In addition to line-by-line transcriptions which add to the bulk of the book and may not be much consulted, except by future editors (if one can imagine the need for them), there are some prayers of ...”

“... victims, some of whom fell foul of the NKVD because of their contacts with Western scientists. Lev Landau, who like Kapitsa later won a Nobel Prize, was imprisoned by the NKVD as an alleged German spy. Even during the Second World War, the KGB seems to have been slow to grasp the importance of atomic physics. When Klaus Fuchs began to pass nuclear secrets to ...”