By ‘me’ I’m referring to Sir Bernard Lovell, rather than me myself – I’ve never, as far as I’m aware, been the target of a Russian hit. I once had a very close call with a St Petersburg taxi driver, though. . . .
Back to Sir Bernard. The renowned British scientist, who developed the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, said in a BBC interview that during a trip to the Soviet union in 1963 the Russians tried to kill him with radiation. Professor Lovell wrote a detailed account of the incident, which won’t, unfortunately, be released into the public domain until after his death. He believes the Soviets bombarded him with lethal radiation from a radio telescope he was visiting on the Black Sea.
Although ill for a month on his return to Blighty he nonetheless survived (obviously). Many of his fellow scientists who went to the USSR in the early 1960s weren’t so lucky. Some never came back at all, others did but died shortly afterwards. Now, I’m all for wishing Sir Bernard a long life and all that, but, well, you know, I’m kinda dying to know what’s in that there detailed account he wrote. . . .
