Comments on: France acquired a bargaining power out of all proportion to anything to which her early patents entitled her https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/france-acquired-a-bargaining-power-out-of-all-proportion-to-anything-to-which-her-early-patents-entitled-her/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 17 May 2026 22:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/france-acquired-a-bargaining-power-out-of-all-proportion-to-anything-to-which-her-early-patents-entitled-her/comment-page-1/#comment-3760515 T. Beholder Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:19:06 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53712#comment-3760515

information that had been developed by Americans

Good old Americans, like good old Dr. Ver… no, that was the next time.

Like good old Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and John Von Neumann. If this was not the greatest brain-drain in all the written history, what was?

Bruce says:

A devoted communist, Joliot Curie was purged in 1950. [...] This was a lot bigger than Klaus Fuchs.

Yes, but that’s still following the stage magician’s pointing hand.

Considering hobbies of Oppenheimer and perhaps everyone who was anyone in Berkeley — and why would it be only Berkeley? — it was both a lot bigger and a lot closer.

]]> By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/france-acquired-a-bargaining-power-out-of-all-proportion-to-anything-to-which-her-early-patents-entitled-her/comment-page-1/#comment-3760514 Bruce Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:55:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53712#comment-3760514 A devoted communist, Joliot Curie was purged in 1950. The British Communist Party had a lot of clout in Britain, and the foreign scientists on the Manhatten Project were sympathetic. This was a lot bigger than Klaus Fuchs. This was a long-term program to give Stalin the Bomb.

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