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The link: http://llnlthetruth.blogspot.com/
Has a link to this article:
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090824_8927.php
The main thrust of the article is the study of whether the nuclear weapons
complex should be removed from NNSA. But there are two interesting quotes in
the article:
"It is a testament to our weapon designs in the 1970s and '80s that the weapons
are NNSA-proof," said Jeffrey Lewis, who directs the New America Foundation's
Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. "Given the failures that run
from the management [of] NNSA down to the labs, it's remarkable that our bombs
work at all."
And
Lewis said he does not expect the Nuclear Posture Review to significantly
improve on what he sees as the commission's "anodyne" recommendation. Rather, he
anticipates the nuclear agency and national laboratories would likely remain in
"a death spiral of sorts," hampered by "incompetent" management and "shrinking
budgets."
11 comments:
Thank you for your analysis.
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"Given the failures that run from the management [of] NNSA down to the labs, it's remarkable that our bombs work at all."
Do we really know that our bombs still work?
Of course we do...why I completed Ladder and Stairway training just last week!
The BLOG http://llnlthetruth.blogspot.com/ will remain "skeletal". no hoo-hah, just the truth (and no politics).
"...a death spiral of sorts," hampered by "incompetent" management and "shrinking budgets."
Truer words were never spoken. Get out if you can. I see no reason to expect that the next few years will get any better at LLNL since the incompetence is only getting worse.
Incompetence has become part of the post UC LLNL culture, starting with
NNSA, the LSO, GM and implemented all the way down to the group leads.
It is a CYA culture where if you speak your mind, you are isolated, and eventually ousted.
Dont forget though, we are pretty safe, secure and compliant employees. Who cares about productivity?
"Given the failures that run from the management [of] NNSA down to the labs, it's remarkable that our bombs work at all."
Do they?
Who says?
The whole goal of this exercise is to increasingly limit the abilities to develop, test, verify until we cannot prove they work at all. Then shrug our shoulders and disarm completely.
Did you ever stop to think that perhaps all the work we do at the lab is really self delusional? Perhaps all the work we do in Comp is not representative of the way things would really work. We don't really test and we don't really verify. We just tweak the results to match the theories. Perhaps it is time to deconstruct this house of cards.
Saying you want to be a nuclear weapons scientist is like saying you want to design locomotive steam engines. There is no future in it.
...the nuclear agency and national laboratories would likely remain in "a death spiral of sorts," hampered by "incompetent" management and "shrinking budgets." -- News Article
Repeat that key sentence over and over until it sinks deeply into your mind. That's the future of the NNSA's national labs. It appears that nothing is going to change it.
"It appears that nothing is going to change it."
September 2, 2009 9:32 AM
With the recent re-appointment of Tom D'Agostino as head of NNSA, that conjecture has just been proven. QED.
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