The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

Harperdog writes "Hugh Gusterson has a great article on the troubles at Los Alamos over the last decade. Since the late 1990s, nuclear weapons scientists at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have faced an unanticipated threat to their work, from politicians and administrators whose reforms and management policies—enacted in the name of national security and efficiency—have substantially undermined the lab's ability to function as an institution and to superintend the nuclear stockpile."

Comments

Re:Not needed any more

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't get rid of them, Canada is just waiting to invade.

Re:Eccentrics at the labs?

[mapkinase]

>Anyone know if there are any eccentrics left at the labs

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