美国在2010年第一次解密the entire history of its nuclear weapons stockpile size, a decision that has since been used by officials to support U.S. non-proliferation policy by demonstrating U.S. adherence to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), providing transparency about U.S. nuclear weapons policy, counter false rumors about secretly building up its nuclear arsenal, and to encourage other nuclear-armed states to be more transparent about their arsenals.
这decision walks back nearly a decade of U.S. nuclear weapons transparency policy – in fact, longer if including stockpile transparency initiatives in the late-1990s – and places the United States is the same box as over-secretive nuclear-armed states, several of which are U.S. adversaries.
在高分辨率卫星图像的扩散之前,遮蔽了军事设施的航拍照片肯定是州保护其敏感数据的有效方法。However, now that anyone with an internet connection can freely access these images, it simply makes no sense to persist with these unnecessary censorship practices–especially since these methods can often backfire and draw attention to the exact sites that they’re supposed to be hiding.
地球偶尔会在一些政府的要求下这样做,这些政府想要让人们远离一些更敏感的军事或政治场所。例如,在一名法国黑帮分子成功实施了一场受好莱坞启发的越狱行动(涉及无人机、烟雾弹和一架偷来的直升机!)之后,法国要求谷歌屏蔽所有法国监狱的图像——谷歌也照做了同意要在2018年底之前遵守。类似的,一项旧的荷兰法律要求荷兰公司模糊他们的军事和皇家设施的卫星图像,甚至达到卫星图像提供商曾经的程度经过修改的它是Volkel Air Base的图像购买由Fas'非常拥有Hans Kristensen。