“Deadline” is a 1944 science fiction short story by American writer Cleve Cartmill. The story described the then-secret atomic bomb in some detail. At that time the bomb was still under development and top secret, which prompted a visit by the FBI. The authorities accepted the explanation that the story’s material had been gleaned from unclassified sources.
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\”Deadline\” is a 1944 science fiction short story by American writer Cleve Cartmill, first published in Astounding Science Fiction. The story described the then-secret atomic bomb in some detail. At that time the bomb was still under development and top secret, which prompted a visit by the FBI. The authorities eventually accepted the explanation that the story’s material had been gleaned from unclassified sources, but as a precautionary measure they requested that Campbell should not publish any further stories about nuclear technology for the remainder of the war.
However, the story was included in the anthologies The Best of Science Fiction, Science Fiction of the Forties, The Golden Age of Science fiction, and The Great Science Fiction Stories: Volume 6, 1944.
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