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RE: Classified? was Skunk-Works Charter
From: "Clifford M Dubery"
Subject: RE: Classified? was Skunk-Works Charter
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:23:31 +1000
Dennis, with my post and yours, we have demonstrated the problems associated
with classifying material that may be in the public domain. I can think of
another example involving "Flight International" and the Atlas ICBM.
Along with stealth, the principles of radar reflection and airborne objects
is well documented and any school that teaches electronics and radio stuff
would have the theory available, and I am sure, like MIT and other technical
Universities, the aerodynamic application of this material to "stealth" is
also published, weather it is airframe design or materials technology the
point is the same.
Since, if you don't work for Uncle Sam, or in my case HMG, then writing and
publishing your own original research, using your example, the design of a
thermonuclear device, let's say for arguments sake it is comparable to state
of the art circa 1999, then publish it, the law is only broken when the
material is classified. This of course depends on how fast the No Such
Agency can pick it up and run with it.
So don't deliberately publish anything that "is classified" and you will be
safe from prosecution. You may not be safe from other forms of
intimidation?
Clifford M Dubery OHMS not
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Lapcewich [mailto:Dennis.Lapcewich@unisa.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 9:00 AM
To: 'skunk-works@netwrx1.com'
Cc: 'clifford@dubery.com'
Subject: RE: Classified? was Skunk-Works Charter
> 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 23:32:00 EDT 1999