Sometimes history replays itself – in strange and eerie ways. Our job is to remember, prepare for what may come, so we do not repeat what is avoidable, regrettable, tragic. Take the Venona Project. If ...
Richard A. Leibler, a National Security Agency mathematician whose code-breaking work helped lead to the exposure and arrest of Soviet agents who spied on the United States during the height of the ...
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Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets. World News Editor In ...
NOVA explores the story of the VENONA project, a 37-year American codebreaking effort challenged with deciphering theoretically impenetrable codes used by an extensive Soviet spy network throughout ...
Traitors? Martyrs? Just what were the Rosenbergs? After more than 70 years, we might finally have found out. A seemingly-unassuming Jewish couple from New York City charged with conspiracy to commit ...
Christopher Nolan’s film on Robert Oppenheimer, “Father of the American Atom Bomb” starring Cillian Murphy in the lead role is a great hit. On July 16, 1945, when Oppenheimer watched the Trinity Test, ...
NOVA explores the story of the VENONA project, a 37-year American codebreaking effort challenged with deciphering theoretically impenetrable codes used by an extensive Soviet spy network throughout ...