I doubt they can ultimately protect them, research takes decades and they want to live normal lives. Even the US Presidents hate their security bubble.
Short of putting them in military bases for decades...but even then, a bomb from above will take them out.
I dated the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist involved with U.S. government projects. The CIA always watched him and he knew it as part of the job. They wanted to make sure he didn't leak and that he was safe.
OK, how many can CIA watch? And isn't the "other" CIA plotting to kill you...cat and mouse? One mistake and you're kaput. If you want a person dead, he's dead: minus a few heads of state that have 10,000 cops when they go to give a speech.
Not really, the nuclear physicists were largely allowed to travel freely. I am currently reading (listening to the audable book actually) "The making of the atomic bomb" by Richard Rhodes. I highly recommend the book.
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I doubt they can ultimately protect them, research takes decades and they want to live normal lives. Even the US Presidents hate their security bubble.
Short of putting them in military bases for decades...but even then, a bomb from above will take them out.
I dated the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist involved with U.S. government projects. The CIA always watched him and he knew it as part of the job. They wanted to make sure he didn't leak and that he was safe.
I'd rather be watched than suicided.
OK, how many can CIA watch? And isn't the "other" CIA plotting to kill you...cat and mouse? One mistake and you're kaput. If you want a person dead, he's dead: minus a few heads of state that have 10,000 cops when they go to give a speech.
Security is always a game of making something expensive enough that your adversary doesn't succeed.
Maybe that's why they have only killed a number of them
That’s how the successful nuclear programs have done it, from the very beginning.
Not really, the nuclear physicists were largely allowed to travel freely. I am currently reading (listening to the audable book actually) "The making of the atomic bomb" by Richard Rhodes. I highly recommend the book.
I didn't interpret that as travel restrictions. Just put them under protection in everyday life, via secret cities.
The technology and the engineering side, partially, not the science.
When people in politics and journalism say "nuclear scientists", that's who they mean.