Chalmers Johnson says Q clearance was atomic energy in "Me and the CIA" (1997).
Q clearance is for Restricted Data as defined by the Atomic Energy Act. It is a parallel classification system to National Defense Information (which is the Confidential, Secret, Top Secret system), and only applies to nuclear matters, right.
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As an aside, the "Q" stands for nothing. The original AEC system used a form called PSQ (Personnel Security Questionnaire). They decided to make different levels of clearances P, S, and Q. They ended up dropping the P and S categories. I always thought that was amusingly banal.
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