Nope, I'm not the " idiot ", dear. To see one of those, you'd have to look into the nearest mirror. :-)
Well, you could have said that you had these people for profs ... though that isn't exactly " knowing " them, on a personal level ... unless you were their " little friend " too.
And whilst we're at it about " intellectuals " and men who have high IQs, Clinton is supposed to be " brilliant ". Frankly, I don't see it, but oh well. So's his wifey, supposed to have " brains "; in fact, more than he. For people supposedly intelligent, neither of them have proven it, except in how well they are able to con some people.
Back to our current inquiry.
I'm not sure why Opp. wasn't convicted or even charged. It could be that ...well I'm thinking of today with the IT sector. The people who are the hugest hackers get caught do time (sometimes) and get hired by companies as security! Kevin Mitnick who was the most notorious of all hackers and did the most amount of time for his hacking is now in computer security business!
So, I'm thinking that they didn't want to mess with him because he was so high up - working on the actual H bomb. They might have been afraid of defection.
But I wonder.....has there been anything written about this?
It seems that Opp. was seriously involved with communism while working on the bomb!
Rosenbergs seemed much much lower level...maybe he dropped his association with the commies during the Rosenberg thing.