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...GOVERNMENT has finally dropped its six-month long effort to suppress Howard Morland's "The H-Bomb Secret," and the article will appear in The Progressive's next issue. It's about time. The court based its prior restraint injunction on specious "national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...course delighted that we'll be able to publish Howard Morland's article," Erwin Knoll, editor of The Progressive, said last night...
...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...
...Morland did not have access to any classified material, and his scientific training consists of a few college science courses. Any "secret" he "discovered" is nothing but public knowledge, available to almost anyone who cares to look...
...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...