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Oops: US Publishes Secret List of Nuclear Sites

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 2, 2009 9:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Funny, what you can stumble onto on the web. A government agency put up 266 pages of "highly confidential" government information about the nation's nuclear facilities, including precise locations (with helpful maps) of where uranium is stored, reports the New York Times. The information... Read full story »

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