From classified to commonplace: the trajectory of the hydrogen bomb 'secret'.
The secret of the hydrogen bomb went from being an icon of nuclear secrecy to something that could be widely reproduced on the Internet and in children's textbooks. The rise and fall of the H-bomb secret reveals both changing attitudes towards state secrecy in general and the contingent nature of secrecy, depending on an imagined threat as guidance.
Wellerstein
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Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Science Center 371, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. wellerst@fas.harvard.edu
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