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Privatization Limiting Access To Information

Posted by kdawson on from the move-along-nothing-to-see-here dept.

Knutsi sends us to the Federation of American Scientists' blog Secrecy News for a post on how privatization can affect access to research material. The blog tells how a Harvard researcher on the history of nuclear secrecy was denied access that would have been granted in the past. Some followup is in the comments to this reposting of the FAS story. "Los Alamos National Laboratory will no longer permit historians and other researchers to have access to its archival records because Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the private contractor that now operates the Lab, says it has 'no policy in place' that would allow such access."

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  1. Re:I disagree by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    They also sank the Titanic.

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  2. In ... by Xiph · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fascist America, the company owns you (and your government)

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  3. Which company researched the bomb? by Nymz · · Score: 2, Funny

    If research is or was funded by public money, there should always be public access.

    It's a good thing that governments have never ever researched nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have to post bomb making instructions on the internet. For those hiding in caves without internet access, they could send a self-addressed stamped envolope requesting the exact plan they would like.

    Dear America,
    please send me instructions for one ICBM missle.
    Allhu Akbar, Osama.
    1. Re:Which company researched the bomb? by Nuffsaid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Either fire two U-235 subcritical masses into one another at a high velocity to form a critical mass, or compress a hemisphere of fissile material with explosives.
      Ha! They managed to let you and many others believe THAT! Excellent job by the Secret Services. No wonder no rogue terrorist group managed to build one so far. They were all put on false track by this kind of disinformation.
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  4. Titanic by Morosoph · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Iceberg; it's such a giveaway!

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