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+category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
 tags:
   - Person
-  - Scientist
   - Nuclear
-  - USA
+  - Physicist
+  - Israel
+summary: "American nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos for over twenty years who acknowledged close associations with Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute."
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 George A. Cowan was an American scientist who spent more than twenty years designing nuclear weapons at [[Los Alamos]]. He acknowledged that there was always a close association with Israeli physicists from the [[Weizmann Institute of Science]], who visited the labs. Cowan believed that the Israelis were smart enough to do their own research and that the need for secret information was largely promoted by spy novelists.[^1]
 
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