[snowwrestler]

I think it's debatable whether the government actually needs to classify everything it classifies in the name of national security. See this story for example:

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/how-the-cia-writes-histo...

That said, most folks would agree that there is some national security information that should remain classified.

But this science was not classified at all! It was just being forced through a political PR filter. It was public science done on the public's dime, which is just not analogous to nuclear weapons.