“To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.” SaidIdeasStatesAbleScienceSidesAbilityPerfectUnitedCommonUnited StatesMysteryMoonJokesNuclearRussiaInventionMysteriousBombsProductiveIntroducingNew IdeasSuitcasesNuclear Bomb Author:Herbert York
