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Joan Hinton, 88, a nuclear physicist who was labeled “The Atom Spy Who Got Away” in the early 1950s, died June 8 in Beijing, said a spokeswoman for the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization, which Hinton had worked with since 1979.
Recruited at 22 to help develop the atom bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, she was so repulsed when the U.S. dropped it on Japan during World War II that she fled in 1948 to China, where she embraced Maoism and ran a dairy farm for much of the rest of her life. Los Angeles Times
