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Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block?

Posted by chrisd on from the he-threated-me-in-the-real-world dept.

guttentag writes "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Bush's Homeland Security plan calls for transferring $1.2 billion of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's $1.5 billion budget to a new Department of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. However, the plan transfers only 4 percent of the lab's employees. Ridge's explanation of the numbers: "I cannot give you the kind of explanation you need to deal with that imbalance." LLNL funded and houses the ASCI White supercomputer, among other cool projects." While Livermore has an impressive research record, we would miss most the laser lab from Tron.

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  1. Re:partisan by the_radix · · Score: 3, Troll

    ...make the Bush administration seem inept and disorganized.

    Wait... you mean it isn't?

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  2. Re:Nope. by The+Turd+Report · · Score: 1, Troll
    I live 15 minutes from Downtown DC. How would you react if one of these could go off in your backyard?

    Plus, if you want to argue, please argue, don't just post some overused quote and scamper off.

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