Absolute Protection

Twenty machines that contain government nuclear secrets are missing according to a recent audit by the Energy Department Inspector. In addition, the Energy Department currently uses computers that are not in their inventory, including one that was marked as destroyed.

A spokesman for the department, Craig Stevens, said Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman ‘recognizes that we need to manage this place better.’

If this were not menacing enough, the department also has the responsibility to track attempts from foreign governments to steal nuclear information. Unaccounted machines may very possibly house this information.