Abstract
The article1 investigates persistent attempts to link the late Sir Rudolf Peierls and his wife Genia to atomic espionage for the Soviet Union. After discussing the work done by Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls at Birmingham as part of the British nuclear effort, their contribution to the Anglo-American-Canadian Manhattan project is examined. Here the collaboration of Fuchs and Peierls as well as the nature of their personal relationship is looked at. By analyzing evidence from the ‘Venona’ transcripts and the Peierls private papers, it is concluded that allegations linking Peierls to the Soviet espionage, in particular atomic espionage cannot be sustained and that, on the contrary, evidence strongly suggests that neither Rudolf Peierls nor his wife Genia were implicated in any such activities.
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