Doesn’t sound so noble that way, huh?
Something that strikes me about this piece about the idiot reporter who nearly revealed the Manhattan Project to the Axis – and the commentary to that piece in the Atlantic: neither account takes the time to say, Oh, by the way, this was a hideously irresponsible thing to write and publish while we were in the middle of a world-wide conflict against nigh-literal Forces of Evil. I will give Restricted Data (the original site to tell the story) a provisional pass on that: narrating stories about this stuff is apparently what that site is about, so they may have a legitimately detached view on the subject. But the Atlantic doesn’t get off that easily:
Before Woodward and Bernstein, before Glenn Greenwald, there was John W. Raper, a columnist for the Cleveland Press, who stumbled across something very odd while on vacation in New Mexico.