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Secrecy News :  April 12, 2018 SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2018, Issue No. 26 April 12, 2018 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     NUCLEAR WEAPONS MAINTENANCE AS A CAREER PATH **     STATUS OF THE SMART GRID, AND MORE FROM CRS NUCLEAR WEAPONS MAINTENANCE AS A CAREER PATH The US Air Force has published new guidance for training military and civilian personnel to maintain nuclear weapons as a career specialty. See  Nuclear Weapons Career Field Education and Training Plan , Department of the Air Force, April 1, 2018. An Air Force nuclear weapons specialist "inspects, maintains, stores, handles, modifies, repairs, and accounts for nuclear weapons, weapon components, associated equipment, and specialized/general test and handling equipment." He or she also "installs and removes nuclear warheads, bombs, missiles, and reentry vehicles." A successful Air For...

I’ll skip to the good part: It’s an engine of the type used on Flight 11’s aircraft, not Flight 175’s, like the FBI said when it gave the relic on loan to the Newseum, who now displays it wrong in their FBI exhibit – and has been for years (since 2011). N334AA (Flight 11) had 2  General Electric CF6-80A2  engines ( Also 2. ) and N612UA (Flight 175) had 2  Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D  engines. ( Also 2.,   3. )   Source, left :  Photo  by Ruth Ann. General Electric  CF6-80C2  in the American Airlines Museum in Texas. At right, Fresh Kills Landfill,  FEMA News photo  from Oct. 2001. I’ve added the lines and text to indicate the 9/11 engine part –  the same one in the Newseum  – belonged to a CF6. With the aid of a mechanic or other qualified person, this would confirm the engine to be the type flown on N334AA, Flight 11. In 2011 the FBI rolled out that engine part and one other for the 10 th  anniver...

Margaret Atwood’s 10 Rules For Writing Fiction 1. Take a pencil to write with on airplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. 2. If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type. 3. Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do. 4. If you’re using a computer, always safeguard new text with a ­memory stick. 5. Do back exercises. Pain is distracting. 6. Hold the reader’s attention. (This is likely to work better if you can hold your own.) But you don’t know who the reader is, so it’s like shooting fish with a slingshot in the dark. What ­fascinates A will bore the pants off B. 7. You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Ot...