NAS publishes the "Milk Bomb Secret"

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the government's suppression of a scientific paper warning of threats to the nation's milk supply, and how a terrorist could get toxins into the milk we drink.

The government called the paper "a roadmap for terrorists" and persuaded the National Academies of Science to withhold publication, scheduled for May 30.

After further review, NAS published the paper on Tuesday. Dr. Bruce Alberts, the academy's president, said that the academy decided on publication only after meeting with Health and Human Services officials and considering the potential danger. He wrote an online editorial posted with the paper.

"All of the critical information in this article that could be useful to a terrorist," Dr. Alberts wrote, is "immediately accessible on the World Wide Web through a simple Google search," today's New York Times reports.

I wrote earlier of parallels with the 1979 case against The Progressive, when the government stopped publication of an article, "The H-Bomb Secret." Then, as now, the article eventually was published, in large part because all of the information it contained already was public.

Terrorists who want to know how to poison the milk supply can go here to read the paper.

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