Talk:Atomic Spy (book)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:41, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

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Fuchs in the 1940s

• ... that according to his 2020 biography, Atomic Spy, Klaus Fuchs (pictured) felt that passing secrets from his work on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union was for "the betterment of mankind"? Source: "The physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-88) is well known as the atomic spy who gave details of everything he worked on at the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union... Greenspan tries to explain Fuchs’s activities by saying that Fuchs sought "the betterment of mankind" NYT review by Ronald Radosh

• Reviewed: Technically still exempt with 3 credits as of now. (I have reviewed several, though)
• Comment: Can add more as needed, but I liked this one so figured I would give it a try first. I am quick to respond.

Created by Footlessmouse (talk). Self-nominated at 08:28, 30 November 2020 (UTC).

• Reviewing

• Article is new enough, long enough, well written, neutral and supported by inline citations.
• No copyvio issues on Earwig.
• Hook is short enough, correctly formatted, of general interest and supported by inline citation.
• QPQ exempt.
• Image is PD with satisfactory resolution.

Before awarding a tick I think the timeline in the Background section should be expanded. It is not correct to say "...the University of Edinburgh and remained there until after his incarceration, when he was stripped of his citizenship and forced to move back to East Germany." I suggest "...the University of Edinburgh. He was interned as an alien in the Isle of Man and then in Canada before returning to Britain to work on the British atomic bomb project in Birmingham, during which time he became a Soviet agent. He then went to the USA to work on the Manhatten Project, returning to Britain in 1946 to a senior post at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. Having confessed to spying in 1960 he was imprisoned in England for nine years before returning to East Germany."

That would give the reader a clearer idea of the timeline and make more sense of the sequence of events. An interesting article about an interesting book. Papamac (talk) 15:10, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@Iainmacintyre: Thanks for the review! I have rewritten the section as requested. I used what you wrote as a template, though I made a lot of changes and added in references for each statement. I apologize for the previous inaccuracies. Footlessmouse (talk) 22:30, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Reads well. Good work. Papamac (talk) 11:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

• QPQ By the time this is promoted, I will have more than five credits, so Template:Did you know nominations/Germany's role in the Armenian Genocide can serve as my QPQ for this nomination. Footlessmouse (talk) 22:32, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

outline section

Hey, Footlessmouse, I've removed this section for now -- typically we don't have placeholder sections. Once you've filled that in you can re-add, but while it's on the Main page we probably should remove it. —valereee (talk) 19:07, 10 January 2021 (UTC)