US shuts down online nuke guide

Xeni Jardin 5:13 am Fri Nov 3, 2006

Jeff says,

The New York Times is reporting that the feds have shut down the Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal (old Link) 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.” I was able to find indexes to older (less sensitive) documents (and some html from pdfs) still cached at Google tonight. Rep. Pete Hoekstra pushed for the public release of the archive (Wiki link) 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 (Salon link, subscription required) .

This is sure to reignite the debate over which party is best protecting the country's national security interests.

Link (found via TalkingPointsMemo)

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