Los Alamos physicist accused of selling nuclear secrets to Venezuela
SEP 20, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024684
New York Times : Leonardo Mascheroni, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his wife Marjorie Mascheroni were arrested last Friday in their home in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The couple faces charges that they sold classified information about nuclear weapons to an FBI agent who was posing Venezuelan spy. Although the Venezuelan government is prospecting for uranium, it has denied planning to develop nuclear weapons. In indicting the Mascheronis, the US government did not accuse the Venezuelan government or its agents of espionage.
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