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The Chicago Tribune reported accurately that America had the Atomic bomb well before it was used. I don't remeber the exact date, but a quick Google check should convince doubters. The leak was never prosecuted. That would have been done by a member of the greatest generation.

The entire Manhatan Project leaked like a sieve. Stalin knew about the successful test almost as soon as the American delegation did. He was fully informed through his spy network before he was briefed by the US.

The only way someone can logically state that the WWII generation knew how to keep its secrets and the current generation doesn't is to have access to all secrets from both eras and compare what leaked and what didn't. Since none of us here have that information, it is ridiculous to make such claims.

It is further illogical to use this article as an example of "keeping secrets". The article is about a now-deceased Doolittle Raider who spent his later years trying to reveal what he thought was a classified operation that he was a part of.

People on this board regularly claim that US intelligence has thwarted terrorist plots that would have cost US lives, but that such inelligence successes are not reported. If such successes do exist, the fact that no one has ever heard of them is powerful evidence that this generation keeps secrets well. It certainly couldn't mean that there were no successes to reveal, right? Since the story of such success would be the biggest news of our generation but has been supressed, Ipso facto, this generation keeps its secrets as well as any other generation.