[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think serious (as opposed to ideologically blinded) historians agree with the facts in my sentence you cited. Proof is in the eye of the beholder. Ethel Rosenberg died of arrogance. She could have asked for mercy and she did not. She cared more for her ideological reputation than her children. Her children will never accept this fact.

A lot of people in the 1950's were certain that Communism was the wave of the future. She saw herself as the very avatar of that future and would do nothing that might diminish that stature.

[blau993]

I don't quarrel with your characterization of Ethel (and Julius) as arrogant. They surely saw themselves as martyrs for a cause they believed in.

I do think the judgment of history has been that they did not "deliver the Atom Bomb to Stalin." That may be a fair charge to make against Klaus Fuchs, but it overstates the importance of the Rosenbergs. Nevertheless, it was not for want of trying.