Thursday, July 16, 2009

Government Mistakenly Posts List of U.S. Nuclear Sites!

According to USA Today's article, the federal government accidentally posted a list of government and civilian nuclear facilities and their activities in the United States on the internet on May 6. The 266-page document was published as a transmission from President Obama to Congress, and according to the document, the list was required by law and will be provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The document includes both government and civilian nuclear facilities, all of which have various levels of security, including details and the locations of the nation's 103 commercial nuclear power reactors. But, Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, states that there are "zero" national security implications to the publication of this document. Even though researchers may believe that there is no threat associating with this document, anything posted on the internet about a significant situation such as this may cause a disastrous outcome in my opinion. Knowing that such an outrageous document was posted on the internet and could be accessed by terrorists made this a definite must-read article.

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