Wednesday, June 3, 2009
U.S. Releases Secret Nuclear List Accidentally
From MSNBC:
Report gives details about hundreds of the nation's nuclear sites, programs
The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.
The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an on-line newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That publicity set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed. It also prompted a flurry of investigations in Washington into why the document was made public.
On Tuesday evening, after inquiries from The New York Times, the document was withdrawn from a Government Printing Office Web site.
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My Comment: As I had mentioned yesterday, people should be fired. But in my research for this story, I was surprise to learn that numerous installations are already listed under numerous web sites. Even Wikipedia has a few sites listed.
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