Claims

The FBI seized John Aristotle Phillips's A-bomb term paper

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The source says the FBI seized Phillips's 1976 term paper (and that a page was removed from the library copy). Accounts conflict: Princeton Alumni Weekly (2006) says the FBI sent an agent to campus as a precaution for his safety; a Princeton student-history page says the work was confiscated. Wellerstein (Restricted Data, 2021) says the paper was never seized by the government or the FBI.

Evidence

RelationRecordNote
contradictsen.wikipedia.orgCites Wellerstein, Restricted Data (2021) pp. 326-331: 'the paper was never seized by the US government or the FBI'; Dyson removed it from circulation
contradictsswh.princeton.eduPAW 25 Jan 2006: 'the FBI sent an agent to campus as a precaution for his safety'

Sources

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Weinstein - suppressed physics (All-In 2026)asserts

Ties

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John Aristotle Phillips wrote a 1976 Princeton paper designing a crude A-bomb from public sourcessplit from (FBI seizure clause)1976-1977Structural

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John Aristotle Phillips wrote a 1976 Princeton paper designing a crude A-bomb from public sourcessplit into (FBI seizure clause)1976-1977Structural

Claim

The source says the FBI seized Phillips's 1976 term paper (and that a page was removed from the library copy). Accounts conflict: Princeton Alumni Weekly (2006) says the FBI sent an agent to campus as a precaution for his safety; a Princeton student-history page says the work was confiscated. Wellerstein (Restricted Data, 2021) says the paper was never seized by the government or the FBI.