Post; Unlikely story

bulldogg · May 25th, 2006

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~myhan/kaf0205.html

Quote:

Moo-Young Han
Professor of Physics, Duke University
Editor-in-Chief, Society of Korean-American Scholars

After his untimely death, some imaginative authors in Korea published fictions in which attempts have been made to connect Ben Lee, his accidental death, and Park Chung-Hee to an alleged plot by the South Korean government to develop nuclear weapons. This has helped to cast some dark clouds of intrigue, rumors and wild speculation upon the legacy of Ben Lee.

There are widely held speculations in Korea that Ben Lee was somehow
associated with the attempt by South Korea, under the strongman rule of
Park Chung-Hee, to develop Korea's own atomic weapon program. This
insinuation was spread by works of fiction in Korea that portrayed him as
such, based on wild imaginations of some authors.

At no time during his career, Ben was ever associated with any of
the national weapons lab such as Los Alamos, Livermore or Sandia. Now,
we all know the physics principle of nuclear fission, but that does not
make any of us, nuclear and particle physicists, experts in nuclear
weaponry. We all know how an internal combustion works: a mixture
of gasoline and air, when ignited by sparks, can be source of energy,
but that is a far cry from us being expert automobile engine designers!

, Ben Lee had not been associated with any of the nuclear
weaponry project

If you read the rest of the article you discover that the author was a university classmate, friend and colleague of Lee. His version runs completely counter to the assumptions made by the conspiracy advocates in Korea who fostered these rumours. And this article is clearly grounded in verifiable facts rather than heresay and subjective observations.