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Article: Open secrets, closed minds. (classification practices of Department of Energy)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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The Energy Department has announced a review of its classification practices. But it won't do much good unless the department is willing to sort out real from imaginary secrets, about which Energy has a history of delusion.
Take, for example, its handling of my 1988 book, U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, a number of copies of the book have circulated freely. But until recently Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory treated it as a classified document. Meanwhile, at the department's National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, the book is omitted from the card catalog--but an illustration from it appears in an exhibit, without ...