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Thursday, August 14, 2008

On TV today it is being breathlessly reported that Julia Child was a spy for the US during WWII. This has been know for as long as I can remember, but TV people do not appear to be well informed. Baseball catcher Moe Berg is also being discussed. There was a book written about him which Megan Kelly said she was reading, so I guess she wasn't surprised at this "revelation." (Her law Prof. recommended the book.) So she is beautiful and smart. I like that. Moe Berg is really interesting. He was sent to assassinate Heisenberg, the head of the German atomic bomb program. He went to a scientific conference and got into a discussion with Heisenberg about nuclear physics that was interesting enough that Heisenberg invited Berg to eat with him. Berg decided not to kill Heisenberg. He noticed that there was no security around Heisenberg indicating that he wasn't considered to be very important, so he reasoned that Germany was not close to having an atomic bomb. He was correct.

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