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...nuclear plants safe? The answer depends on the definition of "safe." If it means accident-proof, then the answer, as applied to anything from a bicycle to a steel mill, is no. A nuclear plant cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. A plant could, however, suffer a "meltdown" if it loses the water used to cool its uranium core, overheats, ruptures the core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred...
...fortnight ago, Government lawyers got a ten-day restraining order to stop the Progressive and its editor, Erwin Knoll, from publishing an article describing how an H-bomb is built. At a hearing scheduled for next week, they will argue for permanently prohibiting publication. The Government's case appears strong: the article is accurate enough, say Government experts, to help other countries develop the bomb. And the 1954 Atomic Energy Act specifically bans dissemination of secret information about atomic weapons. But if the Government wins, it will be the first time a U.S. court has stopped the press from...
...copies of The New York Times every day. What do I think? I think that you might be interested in reading a novel by a talented and growing writer with an ear for the way people really speak, and I think we should get Texas before Texas gets the Bomb...
...story of some 5,000 words, with the working title "The H-Bomb Secret," was due to appear in the Progressive (circ. 40,000), a left-wing monthly published in Madison, Wis. Two weeks ago, Managing Editor Samuel H. Day Jr. sent a copy to the Department of Energy in Washington and asked for verification of the facts. The article was quickly passed from DOE'S technical experts to its legal staff. "The reaction was pretty amazing and swift," recalls a DOE official. The department informed the Progressive that publication of the material would be "contrary to the United...
After pondering the issues, Judge Warren sided with the Government, at least for the moment. "I'd want to think a long, hard time before I'd give the hydrogen bomb to [Ugandan President] Idi Amin," he said. Warren temporarily prohibited the article from being published and scheduled another hearing for this week. He had a quick rebuttal to worries about the freedom of the press in this particular case. Said he: "You can't speak freely when you're dead...