FBI: 'Missing' nuclear weapon disks never existed (Los Alamos)

KRQE News 13 ^ | 8/10/2004

[hattend]

Now, sources tell KRQE News 13’s Larry Barker that FBI investigators have concluded the disks in question, generally called 'Classified Removable Electronic Media' or C.R.E.M., were never missing and may have never existed in the first place

The clerical error appears to center around the bar codes used to track classified material. The bar code stickers that would have been found on the supposed missing disks were instead discovered still affixed to their original printed forms.

Either way, sounds like a bunch of incompetent clowns are overseeing our nuclear secrets.

[Calpernia]

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[TomasUSMC]

The Titanic never exsisted either!

[AFPhys]

I have to agree with Old Professer #18 here. This actually DOES sound like a simple inventory mess up. Anybody who has ever worked in this realm of life can appreciate how easy it is to do this. I am very relieved if this is the case... we've had enough theft of secrets.

God knows that I'm all in favor of UC being forced to give up their Los Alamos responsibility, but not over this particular situation. ... and, by the way, no matter what, I still believe that the LosAlamos scientist (wen ho le?) circa'97 DID result in compromise of major nuclear secrets.
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[ItsTheMediaStupid]

So what do you and Squantos have against Uncle Charley (UC)?