Playboy After Hours

June, 1960

This magazine's first excursion into the troubled waters of earnest editorializing (The Contaminators, October 1959, a statement on radioactive fallout) met with positive response, for the most part, but a few readers accused us of excess passion. There is a disturbing lack of passion in a letter also concerning radioactive fallout, sent by Major-General Herbert Loper, the Special Atomic Energy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, to Senator Clinton Anderson, the Chairman of the Joint Committe...