Who brings secret H-bomb documents to the bathroom on a train?!

[jeanna]

Here's How a Princeton Physicist Lost Classified H-Bomb Documents in 1953 … on a Night Train

Details of the debacle have been made public for the first time.

www.livescience.com

This is such a wild story - The whole time I'm reading this, I'm picturing Agatha Christie characters. I wonder if some kid picked it up?

 

[DanL]

"Who brings secret H-bomb documents to the bathroom on a train?!"

Somebody who's interested in some light (hydrogen) reading.

 

[jeanna]

Ha love it!!

 

[sward]

Woah! Absolutely nuts

 

[sarajo]

completely crazy

 

[Valentine Michael Smith]

Civilians and unfit military personnel.

 

[Vincenza]

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the eminent physicist lost a classified document, about the hydrogen bomb, on an overnight train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC Krogerfeedback