Howard Morland

Howard Morland

Howard Morland is a United States journalist and activist against nuclear weapons, born in 1942, who in 1979 became famous for apparently discovering the "secret" of the hydrogen bomb (the Teller–Ulam design) and publishing it after a lengthy censorship attempt by the Department of Energy ("United States v. The Progressive"). In recent years he has been outspoken in the protest against the detention of Mordechai Vanunu.

References

*Howard Morland, "The secret that exploded" (New York: Random House, 1981).
*Alexander De Volpi, Jerry Marsh, Ted Postol, and George Stanford, "Born secret: the H-bomb, the Progressive case and national security" (New York: Pergamon Press, 1981).

External links

* [http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/media-gallery/image/tredici/03.htm Picture of Morland and his model H-bomb] from 1983.
* [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/progressive.html Preliminary injunction ruling against "The Progressive"]
* [http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/cardozo.html Howard Morland on "The Progressive" case] (2004 article, describes thought process in coming up with the "secret")
* [http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/morland.html "The Holocaust Bomb: A Question of Time"] by Howard Morland, further thoughts on bomb "secrets"


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