Foreign News: H-Hostage

In 1934, Russian-born Peter Kapitsa, after a distinguished career as one of Britain's top physicists, went to Moscow for a scientific conference. He never came back. In the months that followed, while Kapitsa himself lived in silence, the Western world's topmost scientists clamored furiously for his release. The Russians ended by paying hard cash to Cambridge University for the special laboratory Cambridge had built for the scientist to work in, but as to releasing Kapitsa, they would hear none of it.

From then on, as scientific experiment became more and more a closely...

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