WASHINGTON β National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated β but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information.
In an email sent to employees at NNSA and obtained by NBC News, officials wrote, "The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel."
The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts. NNSA, which is within the Department of Energy and oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, cannot reach these employees directly and is now asking recipients of the email, "Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people's personal contact emails."
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them 
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345
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Tell me about Q clearance. I'm a dirty pleb and don't know.
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The military and glowies use a classification system of Secret and Top Secret. The clearance name and classification of material match. That is to say, if you need to view information that is classified as Secret then you need to possess a Secret-level clearance.
The department of energy has a classification of Secret and Top Secret as well. This gives them access to military Secret and Top Secret data. But the names of their clearances are L (Secret) and Q (Top Secret).
L allows them to handle nuclear weapons information at the Secret level, and Q allows them to handle nuclear weapons information at the Top Secret level.
This allows the nuclear weapon scientists to keep nuclear secrets out of the military, which was deemed a necessary method of separating knowledge.
The Dept of Energy designs and builds warheads. The Dept of Defense designs and builds the missiles and bombs and planes and submarines.
As an additional detail, military Secret and Top Secret clearances are regulated by Executive Order, while L and Q clearances are regulated by Congressional legislation.
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Just want to emphasize this part. Nearly all "classified information" authority stems entirely from the president. He can release CI or change people's clearance on a whim. Nuclear secrets are the exception to this.
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That's why it was super shitty when he got caught with SRD documents at his house.
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How was subredditdrama involved?
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Uh huh, go on
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but fr it just means Secret Restricted Data
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Oh.
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Yes. The Manhattan project split into the Army Special Weapons Program and the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC later became the Department of Energy.
The separation remains today, with each department only building one half of each doomsday device.
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Okay but why? Afraid the army would become too powerful?
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Pretty much. Weapons had become so powerful that they carried massive political impact. You can't just have the military with the unilateral ability to use a city-killer. The President has to make that decision.
The logic sequence of the debate led them to the conclusion that the President needed to have 100% control over the weapons.
Even the department of energy is separated by who does what. One group makes the plutonium shape, one does the explosives, one does the fuzes, one does the security equipment. But none of them know the full details of how everyone else does their part.
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Also less risk of compromise when everyone is limited to the information they need to do their job
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Nukes are energy
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So is my fist hitting your face
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Basically you're getting vetted to be privy to DoE's sensitive nuclear data and related materials (falls under the term Restricted Data or RD) and involves extensive paperwork, crossing your t's and dotting your i's to make sure there's absolutely no mistakes/conflicting data submitted, hired investigators snooping into your personal life (neighbors), your finances, and professional life (previous employers), numerous drug tests, etc. that can take 6 months to a year or more to finally complete.
Imagine being subjected to all this nonsense just to be erroneously terminated from your position due to sheer r-sluration
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