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The W87’s Radiation Case
Alex Wellerstein wrote an excellent blog post called How not to redact a warhead in May 2021. In it, he revealed how in a redacted document from 1999, someone did not redact the document properly, allowing people to reveal some details about some of the weapons in the report by fiddling with the contrast. Los…
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Analysis of 1963 DCI Briefing to Joint Chiefs of Staff
Alex Wellerstein, who runs the blog Restricted Data and is well known for having created NUKEMAP, last year shared a few pages from document he obtained over on r/nuclearweapons. The document is DCI Briefing to Joint Chiefs of Staff dated 30th of July 1963 and marked top secret restricted data. It apparently came from someone…
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Super Octopus
This blog begins with a fascination with the secret of the modern nuclear weapon. If you take a look at the work of the two greats of public nuclear weapons sleuthing; Chuck Hansen — the author of The Swords of Armageddon[1], and Carey Sublette — the author of the Nuclear Weapons Archive[2], you will find…
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