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Nuclear Sleuthing — Can SIGINT Help?

SUMMARY

NSA algorithms can look for the distinctive sound of spinning centrifuges on telephone intercepts to detect nuclear enrichment facilities. This is aided, at least in part, by a recording taken from within a Russian enrichment facility. But “no convincing evidence has been found so far.”

DOCUMENT’S DATE

Mar 31, 2006

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Aug 15, 2018