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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets

Workers stand inside a special chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The chamber is used to test new conventional explosives that initiate detonation of advanced nuclear weapons designs. The data produced from such experiments is considered restricted. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
By Geoff Brumfiel and Jenna McLaughlin •

Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.

Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information.

A spokesperson for the Department of Energy initially denied that Farritor and Ramada had accessed the networks.

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