The time in 1950 when Han Bethe wrote about the H-bomb and the US government raided the offices of Scientific American and pulped or burned every copy of the magazine (while also accusing them of being pinko communists)https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/jan/09/fbi-bethe-banned-sciam/ …
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Without wanting to be too critical, they have the story very wrong in many important ways. And they don't have a copy of the original on the site – that's just the (censored) one, as published by SciAm.
(I have the uncensored version, as well as all of the behind-the-scenes discussion by the AEC and discussion with SciAm. The "US gov't raids SciAm and burns issues in act of censorship" is the way that SciAm spun the story later to great success. It's more complicated than that.)
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Sounds like it would make a good entry for your blog, or we would publish it at
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Have you by chance made those docs public?
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They're part of my book... once that gets further down the line to being in print I'll be releasing more of the original docs as supplementary materials. :-)
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When can I preorder? Need beta readers?
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Still some steps to go through before that... :-) But it's moving along the pipeline...
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