State of Silence by Sam Lebovic

Author:Sam Lebovic [Lebovic, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

If Nickerson was thus punished for his attempt to dissent from the defense policy of his superiors, we shouldn’t lose sight of how limited his critique of the status quo was. He was an exuberant Cold Warrior, a militarist, an architect of the military-industrial complex. He just wanted to be the one to build the missiles, to belong to the service that got the glory of firing the atomic weapons when the war with the Soviets came. That he was the first target of the Espionage Act in the new era of Cold War secrecy is a sign of just how narrowed the political discourse had become in Eisenhower’s America.

But soon, amid the turmoil of Vietnam, a more radical leaker would emerge from another sector of the nation’s sprawling defense sector. The Espionage Act was lying in wait.

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