Article: Los Alamos loses secret data; Third time in a year that classified files vanish.(NATION)

Byline: Guy Taylor, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The nuclear weapons research lab at Los Alamos, N.M., lost track of two data-storage computer disks, marking the third time classified materials have disappeared from there during the past year.

Items described as "classified removable electronic media" were discovered missing from the Weapons Physics Directorate during a special inventory check Wednesday, Kevin Roark, a spokesman at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said Friday. He refused to say yesterday whether the missing items could jeopardize national security, the Associated Press reported.

The lab was created in the 1940s as the headquarters of ...

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