One of Blair's first books, The Hydrogen Bomb: The Men, The Menace, The Mechanism (1954), was co-written with Times Washington bureau chief, James R. Shepley, and provoked considerable controversy at the time with its charges that the U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb had been intentionally delayed by some scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer and that the Los Alamos Laboratory had been infiltrated by Communists.
One of Blair's initial publications, The Hydrogen Bomb: The Men, The Menace, The Mechanism (1954), was co-authored with Times Washington bureau chief James R. Shepley and sparked considerable controversy at the time due to its accusations that the U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb had been intentionally delayed by certain scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer and that the Los Alamos Laboratory had been infiltrated by Communists.