Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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If they can't even keep track of simple things like this, how can they keep track of complex systems?
No security officer in sight.
No security officer in sight.
No worry. Half you anti-gun liberals who work at the labs wouldn't know where the safety is so if you went to use it you'd just get your asses kicked and have it taken away from you all while looking at the business end. Sissy's
As far as the guy that found a rifle... why didn't you report it? Any security officer that leaves his weapon like that deserves to get his ass fired. Have some balls next time and do something, not just talk trash online. Chances are, the security officer was still in the room and within view of his weapon, but out of your line of site
I found a semi-automatic rifle sitting on the lunch-room table of the highest security building at LLNL.
No security officer in sight.
November 5, 2013 at 6:09 PM
Cut it out, you didn't find anything. The "highest security building at LLNL" ? What building is that these days ? NIF, Bldg 111, I know it wasn't Bldg 140 because they won't let security past their lobby. You probably just got back from your two hour bike ride and taking your one hour lunch. If you didn't do nothing about it, then you should be terminated along with the guard.
November 9, 2013 at 9:15 AM
It is clear that you don't.
November 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM"
Lets see, we have Wen Ho Lee, the first huge fire, the copier machine incident, the stolen mustangs, the culture of theft, the stand down, Nanos being run out, meth for secrets, and the second big fire. Sounds like a culture problem to me. Maybe they should close LANL down and ship to LLNL and Sandia. How is it that these places never have had an incident? How is it that the rest of the military intelligence organizations never have incidents like this? Only at LANL does this happen.
You're blaming the Cerro Grande and Las Conchas fires on the "culture" at LANL?? The Forest Service got it wrong? You are really sick. Oh, and just FYI, there were no "stolen mustangs."
If that is so why do people always talk about the stolen mustang with the lab cards? This is brought up over and over so there must be something to it. Someone even said on this blog the most of the power tools in Northern New Mexico come from LANL. Sounds like there is a cultural problem to me. Maybe the arrogant scientists have something to do with it.
November 10, 2013 at 7:41 PM
Um, because the very public results of all the investigations proved there was nothing there and it was a red herring? Jeez, do your read the actual news, or just listen to what "people always talk about".? What people?? Find more intelligent people to listen to!
November 11, 2013 at 6:02 PM
Well, it is only a matter of time before the high school 16 year old crack heads break in and steal your stuff, only to be protected by their LANL upper-management daddies and serve no time in juvie hall. The local media will not report that drug use and drug-related break-ins and theft are rampant in Los Alamos. The reason is that it is the highest income families that they come from, and they are the "best" students. The other end of the crime spectrum in LA is the 13 year olds beating up on their classmates, mostly Espanola valley boys beating up on Espanola valley girls. Who knows how these losers qualify for Los Alamos Public Schools.
November 10, 2013 at 10:16 PM"
The case may be legally closed and this fact may be known by a small number of people but the most prevalent perception is that LANL stole mustangs. Every time there is a screw up at LANL the media reviews all the previous problems at LANL and the stolen mustangs are always on that lit. I am not saying it is correct but that is the perception and we all know perception is reality. Indeed in many ways the case is closed.
November 11, 2013 at 10:20 PM
Only in the minds of the aggressively, proudly ignorant. Such as yourself.
Still no word on the missing gun. I have zero confidence this case will ever be solved. Why the heck LAPD is investigating it, not the FBI, is beyond me. It seems like the case had to wait the entire weekend in order to get off the ground. The gun was missing on a Friday. Other than local searches, nothing happened for days
Nice attempt to deflect attention away from the issue. How many of those other law enforcement agencies are affiliated with nuclear weapons? How many of the illegally obtained firearms in New Mexico are likewise affiliated?
When LANL can't even do simple things such as keeping track of the guns strapped to the guards, how can they maintain credibility on weighty matters of national security? Charlie goes out of his way to make the point that he, as Lab Director, is one of only a few people that has the responsibility to write an annual letter about the health of the country's nuclear weapons.
The issue of the lost gun from the LANL guard is not a manufactured crisis, nor is it an example of isolated behavior. Look it up.
November 14, 2013 at 7:10 AM
The responsibility for accounting for SOC's firearms is SOC's responsibility, not LANL's. SOC has zero responsibility for the health of the country's nuclear weapons. The fact that SOC is "affiliated" with nuclear weapons is an irrelevant red herring. (You intentionally chose a non-specific word vaguely indicating some sort of association with weapons work, where none actually exists.) LANL certainly has a responsibility to assist in investigating what is a simple act of theft by someone, and to assess consequences to SOC for violations of rules and contract provisions if necessary. But your argument is like saying "why can't the police do simple things like keeping banks from being robbed?" as if the police were "affiliated" with the banking industry.
Someone from the 'blame anyone but me' team got riled up!
Issues such as this have a tendency to continue unless they are fixed, instead of dismissed away as irrelevant.
November 14, 2013 at 11:37 AM
Yes, apparently by someone from the "find a way to blame the people you already hate" team.