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Restricted Data The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. The totalizing scientific…
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The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible.
From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. It was foreign to American science and American democracy--and potentially incompatible with both. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global