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  1. Atomic secrets and governmental lies: nuclear science, politics and security in the Pontecorvo case Winner, BSHS Singer Prize . I would like to thank Jeff Hughes and Jon Agar for advice and criticism. I am grateful also to the CHSTM staff and students for support and exchange of ideas. I am indebted to the archivists at the PRO and at the Churchill College Archive Centre for their help. Finally I am most grateful to the Laboratorio Scienza Epistemologia e Ricerca . This paper is based on a research project funded by the CHSTM and the ESRC jointly. [REVIEW]Simone Turchetti - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Science 36 (4):389-415.
    This paper focuses on the defection of nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo from Britain to the USSR in 1950 in an attempt to understand how government and intelligence services assess threats deriving from the unwanted spread of secret scientific information. It questions whether contingent agendas play a role in these assessments, as new evidence suggests that this is exactly what happened in the Pontecorvo case. British diplomatic personnel involved in negotiations with their US counterparts considered playing down the case. Meanwhile, the (...)
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