Cleve Cartmill
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Cleve Cartmill (1908-1964) was an American science fiction author, primarily of short stories. An author for the SF magazine Astounding, he is most known for what's sometimes called "the Cleve Cartmill affair." This concerned his story "Deadline" which appeared in Astounding in 1944. The nuclear weapon in the story appeared to be a suspiciously accurate description even though the story was written a year before Hiroshima was hit. This led Mr. Cartmill to be questioned by US Security on suspicion of being involved in a leak of nuclear information. He referred to John W. Campbell as more responsible. In the end little came of it and the authors showed the information in the story came from libraries.
Otherwise his writing career was not distinguished. Outside of this incident he was likely best known, at the time, for being the co-inventor of the Blackmill system of high speed typography.
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