What is Cleve Cartmill best known for?

Cleve Cartmill is primarily remembered for his short story "Deadline," which caused a stir with the FBI due to its accurate depiction of an atomic bomb during World War II, predating public knowledge of the Manhattan Project.

Cleve Cartmill

21 June 1908 – 11 February 1964

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Cleve E. Cartmill was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cleve Cartmill affair", when his 1944 story "Deadline" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon s…

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Science Fiction Fiction Short Stories Space Opera Essays

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Cleve Cartmill, Michael Corbin, George Sanders

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What is Cleve Cartmill best known for?
Cleve Cartmill is primarily remembered for his short story "Deadline," which caused a stir with the FBI due to its accurate depiction of an atomic bomb during World War II, predating public knowledge of the Manhattan Project.