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I mean...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/us-navy-sail...

> Kristian Saucier, of Arlington, Vermont, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, where a judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring during a three-year period of supervised release after the prison time. He pleaded guilty in May to unauthorized detention of defense information and had faced five to six years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.

> Saucier admitted to taking six photos of classified areas inside the USS Alexandria in 2009 when it was in Groton and he was a 22-year-old machinist mate on the submarine. The photos showed the nuclear reactor compartment, the auxiliary steam propulsion panel and the maneuvering compartment, prosecutors said.

> Saucier took the photos knowing they were classified, but did so only to be able to show his family and future children what he did while he was in the Navy, his lawyers said. He denied sharing the photos with any unauthorized recipient.

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This just illustrates the DoD's hysterical obsession with secrecy. The US, UK, Russia, France, China and India have nuclear submarines. Brazil is building a nuclear submarine. Australia is buying nuclear submarines.

In 1960 you had a good argument for classifying reactors, but it's ridiculous to pretend the US still has a nuclear monopoly sixty years later. This is declining-empire stuff, a fading power trying to keep up a pretense that has long since grown thin.