#nuclear-security

#nuclear-security

The federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile has begun furloughing employees as part of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Monday. In a visit to Nevada, Wright said the National Nuclear Security Administration is furloughing 1,400 federal workers as part of the shutdown, which began Oct. 1. Nearly 400 federal workers will remain on the job, along with thousands of NNSA contractors, the Energy Department said.

"We deployed a then-frontier version of Claude in a Top Secret environment so that the NNSA could systematically test whether AI models could create or exacerbate nuclear risks," Marina Favaro, who oversees National Security Policy & Partnerships at Anthropic tells WIRED. "Since then, the NNSA has been red-teaming successive Claude models in their secure cloud environment and providing us with feedback."

A 38-year-old Ontario man who faced a rare charge under Canada's state secrets law of leaking sensitive information to a foreign entity or terrorist group has been found not criminally responsible after he posted a YouTube video that disclosed nuclear power plant vulnerabilities and provided instructions on how to cause damage. James Alexander Mousaly, who worked for provincial electricity producer Ontario Power Generation, was suffering from bipolar disorder and psychosis