Welds Behind the Plywood
When an undergraduate's thesis questioned a Manhattan skyscraper's strength, lead engineer William LeMessurier rechecked his math and discovered a catastrophic flaw.
The crisis exposed the stark ethical trade-off between confessing engineering blunders to safeguard the public and preserving institutional secrecy to prevent widespread panic.
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