U.S. releases list of nuclear sites by mistake: report
08:09, 4 June 2009
WASHINGTON. June 4. KAZINFORM. The U.S. government, by mistake, released a highly confidential report containing a detailed list of hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, the New York Times reported on Wednesday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The mistake was revealed in a federal newsletter devoted to issues of state secrecy, and set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed, according to the report.
Some experts argued that any dangers from the disclosure were minimal, given that the general outlines of the most sensitive information were already known publicly.
So far the reasons for the mistake remain a mystery; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.