Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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That could be argued both ways. Maybe if we test and it works than other nations are going to say what is the point they could never compete with the US. Maybe China will think wwIII is not a good idea. Of course it could turn out differently and Luxembourg will thing they also need nukes to compete with the US and we start another arms race with more instability.
" This has to ultimately come at the expense to conventional forces."
Good point but than again if someone thinks that the US does not have nukes or they do not work than they could attack. In other words a strong NW deterrent could mean we would need less conventional weapons.
The other issue is China may have been watching what has occurred in the NNSA and DOE since 2000 and think that our capabilities have been degraded. If you take what Nanos had to say about LANL then you might think our capabilities are not what they use to be and that the talent base that existed in the cold war are no longer at the labs. Just a thought. You know when you attack the labs and the people at the labs other nations are paying attention. Now maybe in 2004 no one took China or Russian seriously and we thought that NW are thing of the past but that could be coming back to hurt us now.
I see you have very important insights to add to the discussion.
There are no design or component issues with any systems in the current WR stockpile... but there is something definitely wrong with the brain of the a..hole current occupant of the White House.
5/27/2020 7:01 PM
New Mexico is still a flyover state. No matter how much you try you will be let into the elite class of educated and woke people.
5/27/2020 10:32 PM
Only certain flyover states should be allowed to vote.
5/28/2020 1:02 PM
Who is going to do the "allowing"?