Word: morland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government claims that Howard Morland, the article's author, has discovered the secret of the H-bomb, and some commentators have suggested that publication of Morland's piece could give the H-bomb to Idi Amin and other ruffians of the Third World...
...Progressive (circ. 40,000), a respected liberal monthly based in Madison, Wis., had argued that all the material in the article was in the public domain, compiled by a freelance writer who simply read extensively and interviewed numerous experts. Said Progressive Lawyer Earl Munson Jr.: "If Howard Morland can do it, then there is no secret, and the Government is only fooling the public...
...Morland, 36, a longtime nuclear opponent, was determined to make precisely that point from the start. As he told TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "I think the H-bomb secret is a political secret, not a technical secret. I wanted to explain the fact that there is no secret. But simply to say there is no secret and not go any further carries less impact than actually demonstrating the fact...
...Morland's association with the Progressive began last year after he was introduced to Samuel H. Day Jr., the magazine's associate editor and an anti-nuclear campaigner. Ironically, Morland had once intended to become a nuclear scientist, but a few introductory courses at Atlanta's Emory University convinced him otherwise. He majored in economics, spent five years as an Air Force pilot and held down various jobs. His first contribution to the Progressive, a 3,400-word piece on tritium, a form of hydrogen used in H-bombs, appeared in February...
Though the Progressive said Morland's material came from "unclassified sources," the Government claimed that publication should be barred under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which prohibits the dissemination of secret information about nuclear weapons. The article, said the Government's suit, would "result in grave, direct, immediate and irreparable harm to the national security...