Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> Jon,
> Do you remember any specifics? The author that
> publicised the "Philadelpia Experiment" was
> 'interviewed' but that was years afterward.
>
> I have also heard that after "The Hunt for Red
> October" was published that Clancy had 'visits'
> from government agencies wanting to know where he
> got his information.

from: [www.astromart.com]

An example of both getting it partially wrong and getting it right enough to get in trouble is Heinlein’s 1942 novella “Solution Unsatisfactory”, in which he wrote a future history of how WWII would end. He posited a secret project to develop atomic energy. The result of the project was the development of radioactive “dust” that was so toxic that merely dumping it from a bomber upwind of your enemy’s capitol city would be enough to kill every living thing in the city.

I’ll not spoil the rest of the story for you if you haven’t read it. But, I will tell you that, when the story was published later in WWII, Heinlein had some serious discussions with various security folks. He had worked out the possible consequences of developments in modern Physics. He hadn’t gotten nuclear fission. But he certainly got most of the rest! He just had to convince the “spooks” that he knew nothing of what was REALLY going on!