U.S. Publishes Guide To Building Atom Bombs To Web

Jeff writes "The New York Times is reporting that the feds have shut down the 'Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal' due to concerns from weapons experts that the 'papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.' One diplomat is quoted as saying, 'If you had this, it would short-circuit a lot of things.' Indexes to older (less sensitive) documents (and some html from pdfs) are still cached at Google today. Rep. Pete Hoekstra pushed for the public release of the archive to help determine 'whether Saddam Hussein destroyed Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or hid or transferred them'. Critics have said the archive was created to perpetuate misinformation about WMDs."

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Rip-off

[OriginalArlen]

This story is shamelessly ripped from this morning's BoingBoing version, published at 5am.

Wait I thought Iraq had no Nuclear Program

[SirStanley]

But didn't Iraq have no Nuclear program and Bush lied to us?

So.. if we published Iraq's Nuclear program documents.... wouldn't that Kinda kill that argument?