NNSA administrators on fixed term?

 This is behind a paywall unfortunately but I get the point:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/national-academies-panel-recommends-fixed-term-nnsa-administration-removal-senate-confirmation-nuke-officials/

I think some of the current NNSA administrators would like to keep their jobs after Trump loses. Nice try.

DOE/GOOGLE deal

 With Google being scrutinized , can they deliver what the DOE want? 

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-department-energy-signs-five-year-google-cloud-deal/

Is Los Alamos next?

Anyone who works at Los Alamos and a number of people from Livermore or Sandia who have visited Los Alamos
are all very familiar withe the Obelisk monument in the center of the Santa Fe Plaza. It is usually mandatory viewing for visitors from LLNL when they are in town. Well no longer. In a mostly peaceful protest in Santa Fe in which two officers where assaulted the protestors tore down the Obelisk.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/protesters-tear-down-plaza-obelisk/article_36f53abe-0cc8-11eb-91ac-4bf72f2f32dc.html

"Erected in 1866, the Plaza centerpiece, sometimes called the Soldiers Monument and constructed to honor to Civil War Union soldiers, has spurred several demonstrations in Santa Fe this year amid a nationwide call for racial justice."

Now I will remind of the irony in this. This stood since the last civil war. Are you starting to see where this is headed?
Since Los Alamos is seen by many in a bad light a symbol of oppression one has to ask when people are going to demand when it gets torn down for racial justice. I know no one knows anything about history but you might want to look at what happened to the nations that went through the whole tear down the statues and symbols things in the last 100 years, it actually happened in a number of counties, during their "social revolutions", hint it never ends well...ever.

Hopefully once Trump is gone we get CRT back in the labs.

Hey it is all good, It is now 10:24pm time to watch tonights riots live-streamed on youtube and facebook. For our features tonight we have Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Louisville, and San Diego, at least these are the ones on the screen. Sounds like things are headed in the right direction.

COVID a nuclear security risk?

 COVID a nuclear security risk??

“Traditionally, presidents have temporarily conveyed authority — including nuclear launch authority — to the vice president when they anticipated being under anesthesia. Ronald Reagan took that step in 1985, and George W. Bush did so in 2002 and 2007. There was no indication that Mr. Trump was unconscious, but there was reason to be concerned that the cocktail of drugs he was given could impair his judgment to make the most critical decisions entrusted to a president.

Last week in telephone interviews with Fox News and Fox Business Network, Mr. Trump said he was no longer taking experimental medications but was still on dexamethasone”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/us/politics/trump-nuclear-weapons-coronavirus.html

Defund nuclear weapons

 We need to defund nuclear weapons and slash defense spending.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8825277/Hillary-Clinton-calls-Pentagon-slash-spending-F-35s-aircraft-carriers-nuclear-weapons.html

The truth about CRT

 At the Sandia National Laboratories, which develops technology for America’s nuclear arsenal, executives held a racially segregated training session for white male employees. The three-day event, which was led by a company called White Men as Full Diversity Partners, set the goal of examining “white male culture” and making the employees take responsibility for their “white privilege,” “male privilege” and “heterosexual privilege.” In one of the opening exercises, the instructors wrote on a whiteboard that “white male culture” can be associated with “white supremacists,” “KKK,” “Aryan Nation,” “MAGA hat” and “mass killings.” On the final day, the trainers asked employees to write letters to women and people of color. One participant apologized for his privilege and another pledged to “be a better ally.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-truth-about-critical-race-theory-11601841968

DOE investigates National Labs

 DOE Secretary has launched an investigation of the national laboratories for "potential unlawful use of taxpayer funds" regarding "critical race theory"

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1313595090141552640

Everyone gets the cough med at LLNL!

A LLNS manager clearly but secretly steps out of line with pre-bias or prejudice actions, and instead of strongly addressing such behavior by focused punitive measures, everyone gets the cough medicine? Really? That will never work, and surely local NNSA Field Offices know they are part of the problem and not the solution.

Manufacturing at LLNL

https://www.independentnews.com/labs_link/llnlrss/manufacturing-at-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/video_ef9f30f9-2bfc-55dd-906d-b5636810877d.html