How do Livermore Lab Directors Miller, Albright, and Goldstein stack up?
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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Miller
Glodstein
Like Kurt Warner at the grocery store.
Miller, he bet the farm on the NIF and lost. He also elevated the most sadistic psychopath the lab has seen in years to a position of unprecedented power, causing untold misery throughout the whole complex. He was crazy about safety to the point of being just crazy. He failed to stop and then led the destruction of the UC management system, and oversaw the layoff of a thousand-odd people (including hundreds of FTEs) to feed the greed of LLNS that he headed. It doesn't get much worse than George Miller, at the bottom of the stack.
Goldstein, too new to say much about, so he's second.
Albright didn't do much in his fairly short term, and what he did do, didn't get much publicity. But he was honorable and principled, and he kicked the most sadistic psychopath the lab has seen in years out the door.
Miller 5
Goldstein TBD
McMillan 0.0001
Miller 5
Goldstein TBD
McMillan 0.0001
January 15, 2015 at 2:45 AM
This is the correct sequence, but perhaps insufficient differentiation.
Albright 7.5
Miller 4
Goldstein TBD
McMillan 0.0000000001
2.Miller - Nice guy. A "don't rock the boat" approach to being Director.
3. Goldstein - TBD. Seems very quiet.
Parney presented an unvarnished version of events and I felt he stuck up for the "every day" worker at the lab, which was part of his downfall with NNSA.
I can't judge Goldstein, I left the lab before he took over, don't know if he cries a river during employee presentations. I hope not.
He's the S&M Fonzi Director!
FWIW, would not know Goldstein if we met in the aisle at the store.
He's the S&M Fonzi Director!
January 15, 2015 at 1:30 PM
What do you expect from a "New Yorker"? I once saw Mike Anastasio (another New Yorker) at Trader Joe's in Santa Fe in his robe and slippers buying two shopping baskets full of wine. He probably had a 357-magnum strapped to his side.
January 16, 2015 at 8:42 AM
LANL's former Lab Director "Professor Erwin Anastasio Corey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlLmYVCzKY
LANL's former Lab Director "Professor Erwin Anastasio Corey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxtN0xxzfsw
"Orders of magnitude" differences among the Directors you think? The dynamic range among Directors isn't adequately expressed with a linear axis?
January 17, 2015 at 8:11 PM
I though Jews were only from Israel, Mars and Hell.
I rest my case :).
Here's another question. Is any weapon lab director since Batzel any where near the same intellectual league as Lawrence and Oppenheimer and Teller?
Personally I think "no." Not that the LLCs would care or know what to do with someone who was.
Best that the gifted wunderkinds continue to make even more perfect and fragrant the churlish side of the Hudson while we lesser cretins procreate furiously and continue reprobate ways in our stinking purgatory exile.
January 15, 2015 at 1:30 PM
He may carry a whip, but does he crack it?
January 21, 2015 at 10:16 AM
If the earth shook every time there was a new director, No one would be happy, least of all the taxpayers who pay the bills.
LIFE was a side project, that was over funded, and was essentially an MBA school project.
I once saw Goldstein carrying a whip, dressed in blue jeans, white t-shirt and leather jacket at a Physics AD picnic.
January 15, 2015 at 1:30 PM
He may carry a whip, but does he crack it?
January 20, 2015 at 12:25 PM
Yet to be determined.
The Modern Weapons Complex that NNSA's Tom D'Agostino said was coming? Never happened.
The Robust Reliable Warhead (RRW) that the Modern Weapons Complex was going to study and build? Never happened.
The improvement of science and low morale that report after report has documented and said needs to be fixed at the weapon labs? Never happened.
January 21, 2015 at 6:03 PM
NIF Ignition? Never happened.