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• The issues that Nolan depicts are not relics of a distant past.
• The new world that Oppenheimer helped to create, and the nuclear nightmare he feared, still exists today.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons in his war in Ukraine.
• Declassified records reveal that Soviet spying on the U.S. atomic bomb effort advanced Moscow’s bomb program, but Oppenheimer was no spy.

Oppenheimer’s perspective

• Oppenheimer joined the Manhattan Project, a nationwide effort to build an atomic bomb before the Nazis developed one, in 1942.
• In 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer was accused of being a communist and even a Soviet spy.
• Oppenheimer saw communism as the best defense against the rise of fascism in Europe, which, being of Jewish heritage, was personal for him.

Russian overtures

• But being targeted and cultivated for recruitment is not the same as being a recruited spy.
• Oppenheimer rejected the approach, but for reasons that remain unclear, he did not inform authorities for several months.
• Archives made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse now establish beyond doubt that Oppenheimer was not a Soviet agent.

All the Kremlin’s men

• “Oppenheimer” focuses on Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant theoretical physicist who fled from Nazi Germany to Britain and became a British naturalized subject.
• General Leslie Groves, the military commander of the Manhattan Project, later blamed the British for failing to identify Fuchs as a Soviet spy.
• Other Soviet spies, like the British scientist Alan Nunn May, worked in other parts of the Manhattan Project.
• These men had multiple motives for betraying U.S. atomic secrets.
• By the end of World War II, Stalin’s spies had delivered the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Kremlin.

New targets

• Today, the world stands at the edge of technological revolutions that will transform societies in the 21st century, much as nuclear weapons did in the 20th century: artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biological engineering.
• Watching “Oppenheimer” makes me wonder whether hostile foreign governments may already have stolen keys to unlocking these new technologies, in the same way the Soviets did with the atom bomb.

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  MCIT’s visit to Hong Kong follows a delegation from Hong Kong to Saudi led by Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, John Lee in February this year.
• John Lee, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR, said, “There are tremendous opportunities of collaboration in innovation and technology between Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.
• By starting a chapter in Hong Kong, SCEA seeks to connect business communities in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Saudi Arabia.
• Nicolas Aguzin, CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), said, “This is a very exciting time for collaboration between Hong Kong and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Gods Unchained's availability on Epic Games Store is a crucial milestone for the game, which aims to place it on equal footing with other digital Trading Card Games (TCG) such as Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, Yu Gi Oh, and Legends Of Runeterra.
• Following the launch, Gods Unchained will become easily accessible and discoverable for over 230 million PC users worldwide that comprise the Epic Game Store player base today.
• "It is hard to overestimate the significance of Gods Unchained's launch on Epic Games Store, one of the largest PC gaming platforms in the world," said Daniel Paez, Executive Producer of Gods Unchained.
• The Gods Unchained team recently teased its renewed roadmap for 2023 , with a host of new features planned for integration.

• TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chain Reaction , a semiconductor company focused on disruptive blockchain and privacy hardware, and ePIC Blockchain , a Bitcoin mining system leader, announced today they are collaborating to produce ePIC’s next-generation hashing systems for Bitcoin mining.
• Partnering to leverage their expertise in ASICs, GPUs, network design and system domains, Chain Reaction and ePIC Blockchain are delivering high-performance and efficient solutions for the Bitcoin proof-of-work problem.
• “We are excited to partner with ePIC Blockchain to deliver the next generation of high-performance hashing systems for Bitcoin mining,” said Alon Webman, CEO of Chain Reaction.
• "At ePIC Blockchain, we are committed to driving innovation in the BTC mining industry with high efficiency hashing systems,“ said Jim Seto, CEO of ePIC Blockchain.