Stephan:   The cancer of secrecy creeps across the consciousness of our culture, invading every nook and cranny. Years ago Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute, told me over dinner one night that the American obsession with secrecy, which in science really took hold with the Manhattan Project, would eventually cripple the country. Putting a secret stamp on something just tells your enemies which file cabinets to look in. In contrast, he said, look at lasers -- then one of the most cutting edge areas of applied science -- 'It was all done in the open literature. The developments came so quickly, and were so numerous, they had to publish the submission date. There might already be more advanced and newer information. The Soviets could not keep up, and it was hard for them to know what was truly substantive.'