List of U.S. Nuclear Sites Inadvertently Posted Online

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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I hadn't seen this mentioned on the list yet, so...

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

A U.S. document containing sensitive details about hundreds of civilian
nuclear sites across the country was posted online Monday, an apparently
inadvertent security breach that had federal officials scrambling yesterday
to remedy the mistake.

The document, a draft declaration of U.S. nuclear facilities to the U.N.
nuclear watchdog agency, contained descriptions of sensitive civilian
sites, including the locations of facilities that store enriched uranium
and other materials used in nuclear weapons. It was available for about a
day on a Government Printing Office Web site before inquiries by news
organizations prompted its hasty removal.

Nuclear experts said it was theoretically possible that the document could
benefit terrorists contemplating an attack on one of the facilities. Still,
because the information was unclassified and most of it is publicly
available through other sources, the release generally was deemed more
embarrassing than harmful.

"It is probably not that dangerous, but it is a violation of the law," said
David Albright, a former U.N. nuclear inspector and president the Institute
for Science and International Security, a nonprofit research group in
Washington. "You don't want this information out there, any more than you
would want a thief to know the location of a vault in your house."

[snip]

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR200906030
0028.html

Ironically, it has been posted to Wikileaks.org -- some of which are not
loading right now :-) but all mirrors have it -- so that Genie is out of
the bottle forever.

- - ferg

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