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Swain, Bruce M. – 1982
In the "United States v. the 'Progressive'," the United States government took a small left-wing magazine to court to prevent publication of an article on how a hydrogen bomb works. Amidst great controversy over what the article described and what data were secret and what were not, a federal judge granted an injunction against the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Journalism