Article: Secrets and open societies.(publishing biological research may aid bioterrorism)(Editorial)

I grew up in a small East Tennessee town where many people spoke with a Northern accent and held jobs that they would not describe in detail. Oak Ridge was a plant town that had been built by the government during World War II to help build the bomb. By the 1970s, many people were still involved in various ways in weapons development, and there was an entrenched culture of secrecy about the place. We knew who worked at which plant--there were three of them: X-10, K-25, and Y-12--but not what they did there, and it wasn't something you asked about. During the war, most people did not fully know what they were doing themselves. Only a few people understood the overall ...

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