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NEW CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY FOR NUCLEAR INFO PROPOSED

Officials of the Departments of Energy and Defense have proposed
establishing a new classification category to provide enhanced protection
for some of the nation's most sensitive nuclear weapons information.

The proposal is the culmination of the "higher fences" initiative that
began during the tenure of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary and which called
for increasing security for the most sensitive information. The new
proposal also responds to controversy over the adequacy of protection of
classified nuclear information that arose following the loss of hard drives
containing sensitive data at Los Alamos last year.

The new classification category -- dubbed Sigma 16 -- would apply generally
to "design specifications that permit the reproduction ... of the complete
nuclear assembly system..." and to documents that contain "an aggregation
of design information ... that provides comprehensive insight into nuclear
weapon capabilities, vulnerabilities, or design philosophies."

The proposal for the new classification category was presented in the
"Report of the Joint Policy Group for the Protection of Nuclear Weapons
Design and Use Control Information," dated December 1, 2000. A copy of the
report was obtained by Secrecy News and is posted here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/joint_report.html

Most or all of the affected information is already classified at the Secret
Restricted Data level. DOE and DoD officials considered a proposal to
upgrade the information to Top Secret RD, but rejected this option as too
expensive and unwieldy.

Instead, they recommended creating a new classification category that would
entail increased protection -- including, for example, more rigorous
background investigations for access approval -- even though the
information would remain at its present Secret RD classification level.

The new classification category, Sigma 16, represents an addition to the
existing Sigma 1 through Sigma 15 classification scheme. These are subsets
of classified nuclear weapons information (classified under the Atomic
Energy Act) that are grouped by subject matter.

The definitions of each of the Sigma categories used by the Department of
Energy may be found here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/sigmas.html

In a separate move, DOE late last month approved the upgrading of 12 topics
from Confidential Restricted Data to Secret Restricted Data.

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