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If the story here is that the US DoE is now implicitly confirming common public-domain knowledge that can be found immediately on Wikipedia then sure, that's a story of minor interest. That story is nothing like the title of the blog, though!

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One thing to keep in mind is that the author’s interest lies in the nature of nuclear secrecy, and not necessarily the secrets themselves. It’s a subtle distinction but I think explains why the author finds the fact that this type of diagram was officially released by a national lab interesting, even if the information has previously made its way to the public domain in other unofficial ways.

speculation can be found on Wikipedia, perhaps accurate speculation, perhaps not.

DoE contractors leaking details that confirm that speculation would indeed be a big deal, and might well save adversaries some real time and mistakes they’d otherwise make.

Or it's a psyop designed to make adversaries waste their time on a design that couldn't work.

Spooks man, goddamn spooks!

In the post he mentions why he thinks this is unlikely and is not a thing the US has done previously.

that's exactly what a CIA plant trying to get adversaries to buy into this drawing as being feasible to waste their time would say

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