I had access to nuclear weapons technical publications as part of my job in the Navy.

[MineralMan]

14. I was in the USAF in the late 60s.

On a daily basis, I generated information that was always classified Top Secret with a code word appended to the classification. Getting cleared for that was quite involved, and surprised me as someone in his early 20s.

Did we take that seriously? Absolutely. The penalties for exposing that information outside of a very limited set of people were high. Besides, it was our job and we understood why what we generated had that level of classification. We took that very seriously, but that was pretty much the only thing most of us took seriously.

It wasn't just the information that was classified. Everything we did and how we did it with the technology we used was Top Secret. Was our work important? I don't know. What was done with what we generated was not part of what we knew. That was classified, too, and we weren't cleared for that.

Trump took none of that seriously. He didn't understand it, and didn't give a damn. Had I exposed the stuff I knew or worked on, I would have spent years in prison. So should Donald J. Trump.