Fuchs, Klaus

FUCHS, KLAUS EMIL JULIUS (1911-1988). German-bom physi cist. Fuchs was a member of the German Communist Party study-... 

Although World War II ended with the formal surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, the work of the Manhattan Project continued for another 16 months. In January 1947, the Manhattan Project ceased when its work was transferred to the newly established Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). See also BUSH, VANNEVAR FAT MAN FIFTH WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS FUCHS, KLAUS EMIL JULIUS GADGET GERMANY JUMBO NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH COMMITTEE (NDRC) OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (OSRD) STAGG FIELD. 

In July 1953, the USSR created the Ministry of Medium Machine Building, and in 1954 this rather innocuous-sounding ministry assumed overall responsibility for research, development, and production of nuclear weapons. By the time the USSR was dissolved in December 1991, it possessed a stockpile of many thousands of these weapons. Four newly formed states were identified as having these weapons on their soil Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. To ensure the security and facilitate the destruction of these weapons, all four states received international assistance, such as that provided by the United States under the CTR Program. As of 2006, only Russia continues to possess such weapons. 5 eea/so ARZAMAS-16 FUCHS, KLAUS EMIL JULIUS SAKHAROV, ANDREI DMITRIYEVICH. 

The United States monopoly of the atomic bomb did not last for long. Aided by information gained by the naturalised British scientist, Klaus Fuchs, who had worked on the Manhattan Project, the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb in August 1949, earlier than expected. ... 

Klaus Beschmann Stephan Fuchs and Thomas Hcihn ... 

Fuchs, E., and Klaus, W. (1994) Intermediate filaments structure, dynamics, function, and disease. Annual Review of Biochemistry, 63, 345 382. 

Hans A. Bethe, Klaus Fuchs, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, John L. Magee, Rudolph E. Peierls, and John von Neumann, Blast Waves, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report LA-2000, Office of Technical Services, Washington, D.C., 1958, 301 pp. 

Edward Teller returned to Los Alamos in April 1946 to chair a secret conference. Its purpose, according to a subsequent report, was to review work that has been done on the Super for completeness and accuracy and to make suggestions concerning further work that would be needed in this field if actual construction and test of the Super were plaimed. John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam and Norris Bradbury attended the conference, as did Emil Konopinski, John Manley, Philip Morrison, Canadian theoretician J. Carson Mark and a crowd of other participants. One whose presence would vitally affect U.S. nuclear weapons policy later was Klaus Fuchs. 

For details on Fuchs see Robert C. Williams, Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy (C bridge Harvard University Press, 1987). 

Many thanks also to Prof. Norbert Fuchs (Universitat Zurich) and Prof. Klaus Peter Jantke (TH Leipzig) for their interest in my research. Prof. Laurent Fribourg (ENS Paris) kindly assisted me during the development of some aspects that are based on his own research. Moreover, I m indebted to LuboS Popelinsky (Masaryk University) for many productive discussions. 

Susanne von Grafenstein, Julian E. Fuchs and Klaus R Liedl... 

Klaus Mobius, Anton Savitsky, and Martin Fuchs... 

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