US Scientist Sentenced For Attempting To Sell Nuclear Secrets


US Scientist Sentenced For Attempting To Sell Nuclear Secrets

A former American nuclear physicist was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday after being caught on a hidden camera that purportedly showed him attempting to sell classified information to Venezuela, according to media reports. In the recordings, made between November 2008 and July 2009, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, a scientist at the Los Alamos National…