The New York Times on the Rosenbergs

Here’s the next-to-last sentence from a sympathetic editorial in the NYT about the Rosenbergs who were executed 50 years ago today for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets:

“There is no reason to believe either Rosenberg passed on secrets so valuable that they should have been blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.”

So remember: People who give the nuclear bomb to Joseph Stalin don’t kill people. Stalin kills people.