Thursday, June 04, 2009

Secret list of United States nukes out accidentally

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The United States government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of American civilian nuclear sites and programmes, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.

The publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy.

That 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 had been made public.

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