Anti LANL activists group go nuclear on each other.

 Anti LANL activists group go nuclear on each other.

Greg Mellos Los Almos Study group continues to lob bombs at the Nuclear Watch group which fires back with missiles. It is amusing watching these two groups in all out exchange to see which will be the last activist group standing. I will live you these little gems from the
paper.

Jay Coghlan NucWatch, has to take a swipe at Greg

"You clearly relish infighting with other activists given your decades-old pattern of attacking those who don’t agree with your self-righteous views. But your very judgment is flawed. This is to be expected given that you are part of the surrender crowd to Putin’s genocidal war in Ukraine (which started in Syria, which started in Chechnya). See "

Greg Mello

"Jay, I am not "infighting" with you. I just don't agree with you. We are not on the same side at all, on most issues."

The peoples front of Judea vs Judean people front.

AI poses ‘risk of extinction’

 Are the labs and nukes irrelevant now with the coming AI age? For past 80 years nuclear war has been the biggest immediate threat to humanity with LLNL and LANL being

part of this. Now the the real threat is AI, does that mean the labs are irrelevant and we should close them down and make a new project to fight AI, call the Brooklyn project where we assemble the best minds to create a AI to to protect humanity
against other AIs? I it is starting to look that way so we better start rethinking our budget and science priorities if we are go survive. As such the importance of the labs must fade.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ai-poses-risk-of-extinction-on-par-with-nukes-tech-leaders-say/ar-AA1bT5yh

LLNL Salary comparison

 Salary ratios at LLNL before and after the 2007 transition from UC/LLNL to LLNS

Have the salary ratios of the employees listed below changed if we use pre-2007 salary ratios as a baseline, or have these ratios been fairly constant through 2023?

1. Division Leader to Engineer (non-manager)
2. Group Leader to Engineer (non-manager)
3. Supervisor to Tech Associate (non-manager)
4. other

The reasoning or support for salary differences between manager and non-managers is not in question for this topic. The ratio of those salaries (1-4) pre and post transition, is the question asked.

162 top US nuclear researchers working for China

 In September 2020, a former LANL scientist was sentenced to probation and fined for lying about his participation in a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program.

The report offered DOE seven recommendations for its insider threat program. In a written response included in the report, the DOE said it agreed with all the recommendations and provided plans to address them.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/162-researchers-from-top-us-nuclear-facility-now-working-for-china-report_4748811.html

Price gouging by defense contractors

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-budget-price-gouging-military-contractors-60-minutes-2023-05-21/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=215720704

You would almost think that having a for profit company run a nuclear weapons lab is a bad idea.

In March, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced the largest Pentagon budget ever: $842 billion. Almost half will go to defense contractors.

Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, who spent his career overseeing the purchase of some of the country's most critical weapons systems, said there's an inherent conflict between the Pentagon and defense contractors.

"They are companies that have to survive, make profit. The Department of Defense, on the other hand, wants the best weapon systems it can have as quickly as possible and as inexpensively as possible. Those are opposite ends of the spectrum.

How true is this?

 https://www.thebrighterside.news/amp/nuclear-waste-powered-battery-lasts-thousands-of-years

The fall of Bakhmut

 It looks like Bakhmut has fallen. Are we even closer to WW3 now?