Alan Nunn May, British nuclear physicist employed on top-secret research, illegally passed classified information to the Soviet Union, thereby assisting the Russians in their development of the atom bomb. Arrested in March 1946, he was sentenced on May 1, 1946 to ten years’ imprisonment.
Something to ponder when thinking about Jonathan Pollard, who has thus far served more than twenty years’ imprisonment for illegally passing classified information to Israel, America’s ally—information the American government withheld from Israel in contravention of the two countries’ strategic cooperation agreement.
