{"id":11490,"date":"2009-10-22T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:00:52","slug":"steven-aftergood-nozette-and-nuclear-rocketry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11490","title":{"rendered":"Steven Aftergood: Nozette and Nuclear Rocketry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/\">22 October 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOZETTE AND NUCLEAR  ROCKETRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stewart D. Nozette, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/21\/the-scientist-who-mistook-himself-for-a-spy\/\">arrested  and charged<\/a> this week under the Espionage Act, is an unusually gifted and  accomplished technologist.\u00a0 The allegation that he provided classified  information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer in  exchange for cash is distressing on several levels.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things,  Nozette had exceptionally broad access to a range of classified programs in  defense, space and nuclear technology.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/ops\/ci\/nozette-complaint.pdf\">an FBI affidavit<\/a> (pdf), Nozette stated that he &#8220;held a DOE Q clearance from 1990-2000, which  involved insight into all aspects of nuclear weapons programs.\u00a0 Held  TS\/SI\/TK\/B\/G clearance 1998-2006,&#8230; Held at least 20+ SAP [special access  program clearances]&#8230; from 1998-2004.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, however, Nozette&#8217;s  participation in Department of Defense special access programs dates back even  earlier, to 1990 or so.\u00a0 At that time he was read into an unacknowledged special  access program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/othergov\/dod\/tw.pdf\">Timber Wind<\/a> (pdf), which  was an effort by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization to develop a  rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor.\u00a0 Dr. Nozette&#8217;s name appears on a  Timber Wind master access list we obtained which identified the several hundred  persons who were authorized to be briefed on that nuclear rocket  program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2009\/10\/nozette.html\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, 22 October 2009 NOZETTE AND NUCLEAR ROCKETRY Stewart D. Nozette, who was arrested and charged this week under the Espionage Act, is an unusually gifted and accomplished technologist.\u00a0 The allegation that he provided classified information to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11495,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}