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Timeglider Software Outlines Rosenberg Spy Case

Posted by samzenpus on from the too-late-for-an-appeal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Related to the previous story on Slashdot on the release of the Vassiliev Notebooks: the Cold War project has created a timeline on the Rosenberg spy ring (using Timeglider — a web-based, Flash-powered software for creating timelines), integrating the documentation from the Venona Intercepts, the FBI files related to industrial and atomic espionage, the Rosenberg trial papers and the Vassiliev notebooks in a easy-to-digest, complete picture of the evidence on the Rosenberg's involvement in atomic espionage. It can be accessed via the project's webpage. The use of Timeglider makes understanding the complex nature of the case and the newly available documentation more manageable."

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  1. This is a job for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Consider the following far-more-useful timeline presentations...

    http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
    http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/religions.html
    http://www.timerime.com/ ...The shame of it all is that Timeglider fails to beat the above three technologies, and NONE of them use Flash.

  2. Massacre or fight for freedom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me help you. What he meant was, that more people had died in the war which ensued following the US invasion of Iraq than had died in peacetime under Saddam's regime. He's right.

    If you believe Amnesty International's figures, there were fewer than 200 hangings in Iraq per year before the invasion (some might say that's enough), and even as his regime responded to uprisings, they killed fewer Iraqis than were killed as a direct result of the US invasion.

    The difference is that when Saddam's regime killed people to put down the uprising, the US called it a massacre. When the US killed thousands of Iraqis during and since the invasion to suppress opposition, it is described as a necessary but tragic consequence of ridding Iraq of a dictator.

    I am not an admirer of Saddam or his yobbish sons, but the story is not as clear cut as you would like to believe.