Westminster diary Comment from Tam Dalyell

摘要

Margaret thatcher and I had an intriguing exchange at the end of the 1970s. At a Prime Minister's Question Time, I asked her if she could persuade her Dutch counterpart to explain a mystery of the day: how crucial secrets were stolen from the world's most advanced enriched-uranium enterprise at Almelo in the Netherlands, only to turn up in Pakistan. It could, I suggested, prove more damaging to world peace than anything done by the earlier "atom spies"—including even the notorious Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Americans who passed on nuclear weapons secrets to the Russians.