On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
... Detailed information about construction of advanced nuclear weapons or ...
So, while the details of material removed for legitimate security reasons cannot be published; ...
On point of information -
Thanks to Howard Morland, who as it happens was the same Howard Morland who wrote the Progressive article on the Teller-Ulam thermonuclear device concept that sparked the US v Progressive court case, we do have at least two distinct sets of detailed information on advanced nuclear weapons, the aforementioned Teller-Ulam information and the Swan device's basic explosive lens principle/concept. We had a third regarding another specific weapon, sufficient for an expert to reconstruct the weapon design from scratch, but it was removed (by someone else) as anecdotal reporting by a former weapon maintainer that had no reliable sources published.
As far as I recall, there has not been anything like an organized on-wiki effort to remove the info, nor has the Foundation done anything that I noticed pursuant to any secret orders they might have received.
There's more self-restraint among that field's active participating crowd, things we haven't published yet, than anything else.
We had a little kerfuffle over photos of the former head of the National Nuclear Security Agency's Q-clearance badge, but that was as close as it ever came to DoE or others poking their heads in here on any of these topics...
-george