Paper Shouldn’t Reveal Location of Oil Reserve

On the front page of the Aug. 9 Business section, you printed a map that showed the location of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

I don’t fault The Times for printing this information. But why is it in the public domain?

If they are “strategic reserves” then they darn well ought to be classified.

It reminded me of a scene in the 1963 film “Dr. Strangelove; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” The movie, incredibly enough, is a comedy about nuclear annihilation.

At one point, the Russian ambassador to the United States charges that the Americans started developing a doomsday machine first. An American general vigorously denies this. The ambassador replies that their source was the New York Times.

KIRK WEISS

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