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==Background==
 
==Background==
Born into a non-observant [[Jewish]] family, he fled from [[Europe]] to the [[USA]] in 1940. In 1943 he became a member of the joint Anglo-Canadian atomic energy team at [[Montreal]]. In 1948 he obtained [[Great Britain|British]] citizenship and joined the British atomic bomb project at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), in Harwell, [[Oxfordshire]] where he joined the Nuclear Physics Division as a principal scientific officer, led by [[Egon Bretscher]].  
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Born into a non-observant [[Jewish]] family, he fled from [[Europe]] to the [[USA]] in 1940. In 1943 he became a member of the joint Anglo-Canadian atomic energy team at [[Montreal]]. In 1948 he obtained [[Great Britain|British]] citizenship and joined the British atomic bomb project at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), in Harwell, [[Oxfordshire]] where he joined the Nuclear Physics Division as a principal scientific officer, led by [[Egon Bretscher]]. It is perhaps possible that the [[Counterexamples to Relativity|dubious liberal theory of relativity]] corrupted Pontecorvo's spirit into servitude at the hands of the Soviet Union.
    
==Defection==
 
==Defection==
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