I don’t mean to be flip, but they didn’t need the archive to figure this out. They could have looked it up on Wikipedia.pic.twitter.com/orvSELpWU4
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I wrote a paper on nuclear weapons diagrams in 2005, but never could do much with it (too long, too detailed, and the copyright issues with publication would be impossible). But some aspects of the analysis will be in my book. Features a nifty taxonomy of weapon drawings.pic.twitter.com/9dC2NpBnn2
BTW the Iran diagram falls in the upper-left quadrant — the place of very functional drawings not meant to visually advertise any claims to the possession of secrets. The kind of thing you find in newspapers, encyclopedias, etc. Cf with Rhodes and Hansen (attached).pic.twitter.com/LtUuwRmT5o
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(This doesn't mean the diagram doesn't possess any "secrets" — just that it isn't trying to advertise that it contains them.)
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And the fun fact as you well know. The combination of certain unclassified items together could in itself be consider classified too...
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