Quotation
Infamous Soviet Atom Spies who make up Red Joan's characters:
This is exactly why I wanted a first class science graduate as an assistant. Not a pretty face. I mean, of course you're not not a pretty face.
(Melita Norwood -- a secretary in the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, linked to the Woolwich Arsenal spy ring of 1938 and in wartime to "Tube Alloys" program.)
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Oh, well, I'm sure you've already thought of this but... a centrifugal force could separate of the two isotopes.
(Klaus Fuchs — the German-born British theoretical physicist who worked with the British delegation at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project on the processes for separating isotopes of uranium.)
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I can't stop Sonya doing anything. Well, you run all the op, right? My dear girl, Sonya does.
(Ursula Kuczynski AKA Ruth Werner, code name Sonya, handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs.)