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Jadi, saat itu saya berada pada penugasan majalah "Progressive", dan saya menemukan yang dikenal sebagai "rahasia H-bomb."
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Maka hal itu adalah salah satu artikel yang saya tulis.
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Pemerintah menangkapnya, dan membawa kami ke pengadilan, menyensor artikel, menghentikan publikasi,
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dan kami berada di pengadilan selama kira-kira enam bulan
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Selama enam bulan kami "menang atas"pers dan para penguasa bersenjata
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and we convinced the government that the information I was writing about was in the public domain anyway,
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so they dropped the case and we won.
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My name is Howard Morland.
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I've been called a "whistle blower," but I was actually just a journalist covering a story.
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I came in contact with this guy named John Coster-Mullen, who was a truck driver.
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who had written a self-published book on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
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and he had no expertise in science at all,
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but he had this weird idea that he would start going to reunions of the people who dropped the bomb.
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even though he wasn't even their generation.
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But he went there, he started making friends with these people, talking to them.
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They started telling him what they knew about the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb.
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And when I looked at his evidence, I was convinced, and I asked him - I said the Wikipedia article has got it wrong.
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Do you want to fix that?
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And he said, "I already tried."
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I submitted a correction to the Wikipedia article, and this guy named Fastfission, who - we don't know who he is.
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He has always remained anonymous.
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he said that this is not credible information because you don't have anything you can cite except your own self-published book,
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and every other book in the world says you're wrong.
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So I said, well, I think we can fix that, even though I knew nothing about it. This was my introduction to Wikipedia.
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I said, I think we can fix that.
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And I got Richard Rhodes, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
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Stan Norris, who had written the biography of Leslie Groves, the General who ran the [Manhattan] Project.
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and a couple of other people, and we all wrote into the Talk Page and told Fastfission,
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we've all got published books. We haven't said anything about this topic, but we read this guy's book, and we think he's right,
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and everybody else is wrong.
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And so Fastfission then yielded, and I wrote the correction.
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Wikipedia is one of the most amazing institutions I've ever encountered.
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I don't know anything like it.
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It is a testament to the desire of people
to know things and to share information.
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Despite the fact that from the beginning of time,
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when people started learning how to do stuff, I'm sure they tried to keep it secret.
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I know that people who write books, especially in the nuclear weapons field,
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largely they are professors, or people working at think tanks; they have a salary.
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They write these books. The books don't make any money.
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They are read by very few people.
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But they write the book, they give a seminar, but the Wikipedia article that I wrote on nuclear weapons design
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gets, I think, the last time I looked, it
had something like 400 hits a day.
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Nobody's book gets that much publicity.
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And I don't get any money for it, but I produce this information, and
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somehow it's getting out there, and people are looking at it.
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So, that's the satisfaction of being a writer whose work is read.
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Director: Victor Grigas
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Codirector: David Grossman
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