The Defense Department has rejected an Energy Department request to declassify information on the quantities and status of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. In a Dec. 20 letter to retired Air Force Gen. Eugene Habiger, director of the DOE office of security and emergency operations, Pentagon chief information officer Arthur Money said the Defense Department information." Such stockpile information "is directly relevant to the reconstitution of nuclear forces," Money adds. The letter was first reported today in Secrecy News,...
