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Irwin Knoll was working in his office the afternoon of March 1 when his turquoise-blue telephone rang. His desk was piled high with manuscripts, galleys, half-empty coffee cups, and ashtrays full of cigarettes smoked down to the filters. The deadline for the April issue of The Progressive was fast approaching, and Knoll, the magazine's editor, was going over his lead story - an article by freelance writer Howard Morland who claimed to have discovered the "secret" of the hydrogen bomb. Knoll expected the piece to cause a stir, but he had little idea, as he reached for the phone, just how far and how fast the shock waves would spread from his Madison, Wisconsin, office.
The man at the other end of the line was Lynn Coleman, general counsel for the Department of...