Progressive magazine by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). A
temporary injunction was granted against The Progressive to prevent the
publication of an article by activist Howard Morland that purported to
reveal the "secret" of the hydrogen bomb. The case was brought before
Judge Robert W. Warren in the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Federal
courthouse pictured). Though the information had been compiled from
publicly available sources, the DOE claimed that it fell under the "born
secret" clause of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Because of the
sensitive nature of the information, two separate hearings were
conducted, one in public, and the other in camera. The defendants would
not accept security clearances, and so were not present at the in camera
hearings. The article was eventually published after the government
lawyers dropped their case during the appeals process, calling it moot
after other information was independently published. Despite its
indecisive conclusion, law students still study the case, which tested
the limits of the presumption of unconstitutionality attached to prior
restraints.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Progressive>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1611:
Robert Barker, the King's Printer, made the first printing of
the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorized_King_James_Version>
1863:
American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was
wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading
to his death by pneumonia eight days later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville>
1969:
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her
maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_2>
1999:
Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected President
of Panama.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireya_Moscoso>
2003:
Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian
Muslims killed eight Hindu Arayan fishermen in Kerala.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marad_massacre>
2008:
The current ongoing Chaitén volcano eruption in Chile, the
first in 9,500 years, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chait%C3%A9n_(volcano)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Penrose stairs:
An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an
optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Moral Action is that great and only Experiment, in which all
riddles of the most manifold appearances explain themselves. Whoso
understands it, and in rigid sequence of Thought can lay it open, is
forever master of Nature.
--Novalis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Novalis>
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