re: #62 Belafon

We know that a portion of the Soviet space/nuclear program was based on information obtained from America (and I would not be surprised if some of what we achieved was based on stolen intelligence from them).

Hell, the Soviets wouldn’t have been able to work with nitric acid (one of the primary liquid-fueled rocket oxidizers) if it hadn’t been for an unfortunate lapse in judgment of the intelligence community, leaving a critical development unclassified and, in fact, pushing it to be published at a convention.