1. Security Risk.
- Author
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Szilard, Leo
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NATIONAL security ,PHYSICISTS ,PUBLICATIONS ,NUCLEAR energy ,GRAPHITE ,URANIUM - Abstract
The article focuses on the initiative of scientist Leo Szilard to encourage physicists in America, England, France and Denmark to deter publication of papers related to atomic energy. It is indicated that his paper on the possibility of keeping a chain reaction in a system consisted of graphite and uranium was the first one withheld, as requested by the government. After the war, he was the one of the people who interfered with the publication of the Symth Report, since he felt that it will risk national security.
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- 1954
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