Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released

eldavojohn writes "Someone accidentally released a 266-page report on hundreds of sites in the US for stockpiling and storing hazardous nuclear materials for civilian use. While some ex-officials and experts don't find it to be a serious breach, the Federation of American Scientists are calling it a 'a one-stop shop for information on US nuclear programs.' The document contains information about Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia, and opinions seem to be split on whether it's a harmless list or terrorist risk. One thing is for sure: it was taken down after the New York Times inquired to the Government Accountability Office about it."

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Re:glad they took it down.....

[Shakrai]

Hmm, that article is interesting.

For the most part, satellite imagery services have reached agreements with various governments about whether they can photograph sensitive locations and, if so, at what resolution. Similar informal agreements exist with companies such as Microsoft and Google, which provide maps and virtual earth services. For example, as shown here, the images available of the neighborhood near Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC start to get blurry as the service maps areas closer to the White House.

But these sorts of agreements are informal and, apparently, subject to revision without notice. That's the apparent message of a story that appeared in The Sun, which found that a military base that houses some of the country's nuclear-armed submarines had lost the protective fuzziness that had masked its appearance in earlier versions of Google's imagery service.

Maybe it's just newer pictures with a better satellite and there never was any "informal agreement" to begin with?