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By scooby
Scooby, recently a poster has taken over this blog with comments about the defense industry, which is irrelevant to the NNSA and flouts the rules of this blog. Could you kindly post the blog rules so as to prevent this from happening again? It’s an unfortunate distraction from an otherwise interesting blog.

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Scooby said…
Blog rules are already permanently posted on top.

Here they are again:

Stay on topic.
No foul, vulgar, or inflammatory language.
No name calling.
No personal attacks or put-downs of other blog users.
Be patient. Moderator checks and approves new posts several times a day.
4/09/2020 9:05 AM
Anonymous said…
It’s quite remarkable someone thinks the larger Defense context is not relevant to LLNL or LANL. We’re not making these nuclear weapons for the National Park Service...
4/10/2020 4:05 AM
Anonymous said…
Or if we want to stay on topic, should rename the blog for LANL, as it seems to garner the most posts.
4/10/2020 12:20 PM
Anonymous said…
4:05 am, it is not remarkable to those “in the loop” so to speak. If you look up the role of NNSA, it is a semi-autonomous agency within the DOE. The NNSA nor the labs answer to the military and are largely independent from pentagon budgeting and decisions. The fact that nuclear warheads are carried on military rockets, airplanes, and submarines is of no relevance. A simple reading of NNSA wiki page might help to elucidate this for you.
4/10/2020 12:49 PM
Anonymous said…
Some in Britain are questioning their spending on nuclear weapons given the costs of the pandemic.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/10/we-spend-billions-on-nuclear-weapons-lets-fund-the-nhs-instead

Evidently, in Britain nuclear weapons are part of national defense, not an autonomous agency like the NNSA. Big mistake.
4/10/2020 3:46 PM
Anonymous said…
4:05 am, it is not remarkable to those “in the loop” so to speak. If you look up the role of NNSA, it is a semi-autonomous agency within the DOE. The NNSA nor the labs answer to the military and are largely independent from pentagon budgeting and decisions. The fact that nuclear warheads are carried on military rockets, airplanes, and submarines is of no relevance. A simple reading of NNSA wiki page might help to elucidate this for you.

4/10/2020 12:49 PM

Some of what you say is true but it is a very simplistic view. I am sure you are not "in the loop" simply because to it takes more than access to information to be in the loop it takes at least some sophistication in thinking. NNSA is as you sat is semi-autonomous, but you have missed that semi-autonomous and independent are not the same. These are different concepts. Just a small point to consider. As you have pointed out a simple reading of the NNSA wiki page could be in order but I would suggest to go beyond simple.
4/10/2020 4:40 PM
Anonymous said…
4/10/2020 12:49 PM

If the Pentagon wants no nukes, no nukes get designed or built. DoD is the "customer." DOE/NSA does not decide how many nukes the country needs.
4/10/2020 5:08 PM
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