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FOIA case 105997: Intellipedia entries on Moscovium, Element 115 and Bob Lazar

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The National Security Agency sent this FOIA response on 6 September 2019 in case 105997, answering John Greenewald's request of 21 December 2018 for Intellipedia entries on Moscovium, Element 115 and Bob Lazar. NSA released three versions of the Intellipedia page on ununpentium, with some material withheld under FOIA exemptions (b)(3) and (b)(6). The pages cover the synthesis, properties and isotopes of element 115. They say Bob Lazar's account of the element is considered pseudoscience and that no openly available empirical evidence supports his claims.

Jnunpentium - Intellipedia https:llintellipedia.intelink.ic.gov/w/index.php?title=Ununpentium&print ...
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I. Oganessian, Yuri . et al. "Experiments on the Synthesis of Element lIS in the Reaction
243Am(48Ca,xn)291-x115 (http://link.aps.orgiabstract/PRC/v69/e021601).'' Physical Review C, Volume 69
(2004), page 02160 I.
2. Oganessian, Yuri. et al. "of Elements lIS and 113 in the Reaction 243Am + 48Ca (http://link.aps.org
labstractJPRC/v72/e0346 I I Synthesis)." Physical Review C. Volume 72 (2005) page 034611.
3. Keller, O. L.; Nestor, C. W. Fricke, Burkhard. "Predicted Properties of the Superheavy Elements III:
Element liS, Eka-bismuth (http://pubs3 .acs.orglacs/journals/doiI00kup?in_doi=10. l 0211j I 00612aO IS) ."
Journal 0/Physical Chemistry, Volume 78 (1974) pages 1945-1949.
4. Audi, G.; Wapstra, A.H.; Thibault, c.; Blachot, J.; Bersillon, O. "Ame2003 Atomic Mass Evaluation
(http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/amdc/index.html) ... Nuclear PhYSics, A729 (2003).
5. Audi; Bersillon; Blachot; Wapstra. "The Nubase2003 Evaluation of Nuclear and Decay Properties
(http://amdc.in2p3.fr/web/nubase_en.html).'' Nuclear Physics, A 729, pages 3-128 (2003); National
Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Information extracted from the NuDat 2.1
database (http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat2/) Retrieved September 2005.; Lide, David R. (editor); Holden,
Norman E. "Section II, Table of the Isotopes." CRC Handbook o/Chemistry and PhYSics 85th Edition.
Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2005.
6. Values are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from systematic trends. Spins
with weak assignment arguments are enclosed in parentheses.
7. Morgan, David L. "Lazar Critique (http://www.serve.com/mahoodllazar/critiq.htm) ... 26 August 1996
(revised October 2005).
External Links
• Apsidium. "Ununpentium (http://www.apsidium.comlelements/I15.htm) ...
• Glanz, James. "Uut and Uup Add Their Atomic Mass to Periodic Table (http://www.radiochemistry.org
Iperiodictable/elements/115.html)." New York TImes, 1 February 2004.
• Oganessian, Yuri. "Superheavy Elements: The Recent Discovery of Elements 113 and 115 Will Tell Us
More About the Structure of the Nucleus and the Possible Existence of the Island o/Stability
(http://physicsweb.org/articles/worJdlI71717).'' Physicsweb.org, July 2004.
• van der Krogt, Peter. "lIS Ununpentium (http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/elem/uup.html) ...
Elementymology & Elements Mulfidict, 8 January 2006.
• WebElements. com. "U nunpentium (http://www.webelements.comlwebelements/elements/textlUup
/key.html)."
Element Series
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State at Standard Temperature and Pressure (O°C
and 1 atm)
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