
PolicySeptember 1, 2020
How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare
At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy
Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Beer of Broadway Fame: The Piel Family and Their Brooklyn Brewery (State University of New York Press, 2016), from which this article is adapted.

How an Article about the H-Bomb Landed Scientific American in the Middle of the Red Scare
At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy