The First Amendment, government authority and nuclear weapons

Live from Cap Times Idea Fest

In 1979, The Progressive magazine gained national attention as the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government seeking to prevent the magazine from publishing the “secret” of the hydrogen bomb, though all the information was already publicly available.
Bill Lueders, editor of The Progressive, spoke with key people involved in the article about the lessons to be learned from their experience.

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