Fundraising 2012/Translation/Howard Morland video (captions)/id

1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:08,154 Jadi, saat itu saya berada pada penugasan majalah "Progressive", dan saya menemukan yang dikenal sebagai "rahasia H-bomb."

2 00:00:08,154 --> 00:00:10,825 Maka hal itu adalah salah satu artikel yang saya tulis.

3 00:00:10,825 --> 00:00:18,994 Pemerintah menangkapnya, dan membawa kami ke pengadilan, menyensor artikel, menghentikan publikasi,

4 00:00:18,994 --> 00:00:22,093 dan kami berada di pengadilan selama kira-kira enam bulan

5 00:00:22,653 --> 00:00:26,869 Selama enam bulan kami "menang atas"pers dan para penguasa bersenjata

6 00:00:26,869 --> 00:00:34,069 and we convinced the government that the information I was writing about was in the public domain anyway,

7 00:00:34,114 --> 00:00:35,296 so they dropped the case and we won.

8 00:00:35,296 --> 00:00:36,959 My name is Howard Morland.

9 00:00:36,959 --> 00:00:43,273 I've been called a "whistle blower," but I was actually just a journalist covering a story.

10 00:00:45,524 --> 00:00:49,024 I came in contact with this guy named John Coster-Mullen, who was a truck driver.

11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:54,000 who had written a self-published book on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

12 00:00:54,929 --> 00:00:59,608 and he had no expertise in science at all,

13 00:00:59,608 --> 00:01:08,329 but he had this weird idea that he would start going to reunions of the people who dropped the bomb.

14 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:12,876 even though he wasn't even their generation.

15 00:01:13,336 --> 00:01:17,674 But he went there, he started making friends with these people, talking to them.

16 00:01:17,674 --> 00:01:22,889 They started telling him what they knew about the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb.

17 00:01:23,348 --> 00:01:29,198 And when I looked at his evidence, I was convinced, and I asked him - I said the Wikipedia article has got it wrong.

18 00:01:29,210 --> 00:01:29,965 Do you want to fix that?

19 00:01:29,965 --> 00:01:31,673 And he said, "I already tried."

20 00:01:31,673 --> 00:01:39,788 I submitted a correction to the Wikipedia article, and this guy named Fastfission, who - we don't know who he is.

21 00:01:39,788 --> 00:01:41,750 He has always remained anonymous.

22 00:01:41,746 --> 00:01:50,890 he said that this is not credible information because you don't have anything you can cite except your own self-published book,

23 00:01:50,887 --> 00:01:54,030 and every other book in the world says you're wrong.

24 00:01:54,486 --> 00:02:01,810 So I said, well, I think we can fix that, even though I knew nothing about it. This was my introduction to Wikipedia.

25 00:02:01,810 --> 00:02:04,410 I said, I think we can fix that.

26 00:02:04,407 --> 00:02:06,750 And I got Richard Rhodes, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb,

27 00:02:10,851 --> 00:02:20,700 Stan Norris, who had written the biography of Leslie Groves, the General who ran the [Manhattan] Project.

28 00:02:21,156 --> 00:02:29,260 and a couple of other people, and we all wrote into the Talk Page and told Fastfission,

29 00:02:29,265 --> 00:02:35,490 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,

30 00:02:35,494 --> 00:02:37,120 and everybody else is wrong.

31 00:02:37,116 --> 00:02:41,960 And so Fastfission then yielded, and I wrote the correction.

32 00:02:42,394 --> 00:02:47,410 Wikipedia is one of the most amazing institutions I've ever encountered.

33 00:02:47,477 --> 00:02:49,610 I don't know anything like it.

34 00:02:50,059 --> 00:02:58,980 It is a testament to the desire of people to know things and to share information.

35 00:03:00,096 --> 00:03:03,370 Despite the fact that from the beginning of time,

36 00:03:03,371 --> 00:03:07,670 when people started learning how to do stuff, I'm sure they tried to keep it secret.

37 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:11,320 I know that people who write books, especially in the nuclear weapons field,

38 00:03:11,325 --> 00:03:16,870 largely they are professors, or people working at think tanks; they have a salary.

39 00:03:16,871 --> 00:03:20,120 They write these books. The books don't make any money.

40 00:03:20,125 --> 00:03:23,120 They are read by very few people.

41 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:29,650 But they write the book, they give a seminar, but the Wikipedia article that I wrote on nuclear weapons design

42 00:03:32,812 --> 00:03:36,390 gets, I think, the last time I looked, it had something like 400 hits a day.

43 00:03:36,390 --> 00:03:39,860 Nobody's book gets that much publicity.

44 00:03:39,858 --> 00:03:46,970 And I don't get any money for it, but I produce this information, and

45 00:03:46,968 --> 00:03:49,240 somehow it's getting out there, and people are looking at it.

46 00:03:49,235 --> 00:03:55,600 So, that's the satisfaction of being a writer whose work is read.

47 00:03:56,178 --> 00:03:57,100 Director: Victor Grigas

48 00:03:57,105 --> 00:03:57,660 Codirector: David Grossman

49 00:03:57,659 --> 00:03:58,310 Producer: Zack Exley

50 00:03:58,308 --> 00:03:58,820 Director of Photography: Pruitt Y. Allen

51 00:03:58,820 --> 00:03:59,500 Video Photographers: Jack Harris, Adam Parr, Matthew Storck

52 00:03:59,505 --> 00:04:00,030 Portrait Photographers: Adam Novak, Karen Sayre

53 00:04:00,028 --> 00:04:00,490 Makeup: Melissa Klein

54 00:04:00,492 --> 00:04:01,880 Interviewers: Alma Chapa, Jonathan Curiel, Stephen Geer, Dan McSwain, Corey O'Brien, Frank O'Brien, Jacob Wilson

55 00:04:01,882 --> 00:04:03,130 Production Coordinators: Megan Hernandez, Bryony Jones, Beatrice Springborn

56 00:04:03,129 --> 00:04:03,950 Production Assistants: Toby Hessenauer, Kristin Rigsby

57 00:04:03,953 --> 00:04:04,650 Video Editors: Justine Gendron, Victor Grigas, Jawad Qadir

58 00:04:04,651 --> 00:04:05,180 Writer: Desirina Boskovich

59 00:04:05,177 --> 00:04:06,240 Transcription Services: Kate Aleo, Michael Beattie, Karen Callier, Petro Leigh, Mimi Li, Jacqui Pastor, Kristie Robinson, Brittany Turner, Susan Walling

60 00:04:06,245 --> 00:04:06,820 English Closed-Captioning: AlanKelly VerbatimIT