Even though the nuclear codes were obsolete

[newdayneeded]

Somebody could still use trumps codes to develop
a pattern as to how they're generated. The fear could be (pure speculation) that there would be a way to hack and then ultimately block the codes at the time they were needed.

[FarPoint]

1. Correct....

The information exposes our style or patterns of security, our payload, stock maybe even locations....other countries stockpiles...etc...

[Walleye]

2. I'm wondering if he had maps of missile silo locations

[relayerbob]

6. They already have that information

due to satellites and treaty obligations. We know all of theirs also. What they don't have are exact travel patterns of strategic subs.

[Walleye]

7. Yes there must've been something he thought he could sell

[LizBeth]

3. I thought of that too,

[Ocelot II]

4. We don't know what the so-called nuclear documents are.

They were not necessarily the launch codes, more likely something having to do with development or technology. That doesn’t make it better, of course.

[relayerbob]

5. It's not about the nuclear codes, that's not relevant

It's about the disposition of our forces, possibly what we know about our adversaries forces - which tells them how to defeat our forces, as well as likely sources of said information, as well as the disposition of our allies forces.

In the WAPO article, it also said that signals intelligence info was taken. This worries me far more. THAT is actually far more damaging in the real world. Unlikely anyone will use nukes. VERY likely that knowing how we communicate to our troops and satellites, among other things, would be extremely useful in war. Think of, "hack your GPS so that the missiles you launch hit the targets we want them to".