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RE: Classified? was Skunk-Works Charter
From: Dennis Lapcewich
Subject: RE: Classified? was Skunk-Works Charter
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:29:57 +0930
> I am reminded of a senior high school student physics
> assignment on nuclear
> fusion. He designed a thermo-nuclear device from all the unclassified
> material at the local university and ended up with a classified paper.
>
> Does anyone remember that story, because I don't have a
> source, mid 70's I
> think?
>
> Clifford M Dubery
>
>
Sherman, turn on the Way-Back machine, will ya?
If I recall correctly, The Progressive magazine ( http://www.progressive.org/ )
did a cover story back in the 70s on how to build a nuclear weapon from
available public resources. The synapses aren't all firing this morning, but I
believe this turned into a US Supreme Court issue real fast (First Amendment
stuff) that the Progressive eventually won.
Hmm, aren't the Chinese now claiming a similar "defense" with the intrusion at
Los Alamos using the 'net? Can I use a similar approach and post it to the
list if I find something on the 'net that later turns out to be classified?
Dennis
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Created: Sun Jun 20 19:07:41 EDT 1999