Secret Nuclear Weapons Data Missing From Los Alamos Lab. As if it weren’t already bad enough, hard drives containing sensitive data had disappeared from inside locked containers which were inside a locked vault when officials went to check for them after the lab had been evacuated in the brush fires last week.

The material, stored in the vault of

the laboratory’s X Division, where

nuclear weapons are designed,

contained what officials described

as nuclear weapons data used by the

government’s Nuclear Emergency

Search Team, or NEST, which

responds to nuclear accidents and

nuclear-related threats from

terrorists. The material includes all

the data on American nuclear

weapons that the team needs to

render nuclear devices safe in

emergencies.

In addition, the missing material

included intelligence information concerning the Russian

nuclear weapons program, law enforcement officials said.

The article contains many links to older stories in the continuing saga of security leaks from the U.S. Nuclear Lab.[New York Times]