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End of a Scientific Legend?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the past-its-prime dept.

pacopico writes to mention the sorry state of the well-known Los Alamos National Laboratory. Sixty years ago, it was at the forefront of the race for the Atomic bomb. Nowadays, "smugness can breed complacency, and complacency carelessness. In recent years the laboratory has been in the news not for its successes but its failures.The result is a change of management, which the story goes on to discuss in great detail. It begs the question - can Los Alamos hang on as a prestigious place or is it too late for the supercomputing powerhouse and weapons lab?"

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  1. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    n/t

  2. failZ0rs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Many of us are Of an admittedly and I pjrobably

  3. information security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    just information security is a laughing matter concerning us gov't and us private enterprises. Every week it seems some laptop is lost without simplest methods of encryption. In some other countries, such data would never be allowed to leave building and only handled in networks that are separate from Internet. Seems like there aren't even simples of safeguards nor laws in place how to handle private data, store it or backup it. Lol.

    And what comes to weapons r&d, cause US schools really do suck and don't produce enough high quality engineers, Raytheon is filled with Chinese programmers and architechts who carry the knowhow in their heads back to mainland China after collecting enough cash.

    You americans really don't have a clue, do you?