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2003-10-07 | |
Security at the nation's nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the facilities have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine. "Some of the facilities would fail year after year," said Rich Levernier, who spent six years running war games for the U.S. government. "In more than 50 percent of our tests at the Los Alamos facility, we got in, captured the plutonium, got out again, and in some cases didn't fire a shot, because we didn't encounter any guards." These failures occurred despite security forces at the Los Alamos National Laboratories and other nuclear facilities knowing the dates of the drills months in advance, according to the story in next month's Vanity Fair. This is not good.
Ah, now I see. Grain of salt time. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#5 Superhose... As I said, nothing has changed....in DOE or the labs |
Posted by: TerrorHunter4Ever 2003-10-7 4:02:20 PM |
#4 I can't believe that Berkley continues to be allowed to run Los Alamos. They recently had to reinstate two detectives hired as internal auditors that were fired because they uncovered out of control theft of materials of all kind by lab employees. |
Posted by: Superhose 2003-10-7 12:32:44 PM |
#3 I knew Rich "back when" (i.e., early 90s) when I spent a little time in the DOE. Levernier is a straight arrow. I had not heard that he had his clearance yanked. That's like revoking Mother Teresa's eligibility for sainthood. But the DOE was during my exposure to it the most poorly managed agency in the US government. There were competent people working within it but all were led by sniveling, spineless little pogues who thought leader was something you attached to a fishing line. They spent all day back-biting each other in an effort to protect their own rice bowl. And it appears nothing has changed. |
Posted by: TerrorHunter4Ever 2003-10-7 10:30:01 AM |
#2 This is crap. Increasing funding by 50% does not automatically increase security. And they cannot hit 50% even when the know dates months in advance. What kind of shait is this? This lab should be shut down and its management fired as an example. Sounds like Franklin should be fired and replaced with Levenier. You are right dot-com. This is important shit! |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-10-7 9:07:43 AM |
#1 "49.9% sure, but not 50%!", said the spokesliar, Franklin. Whomever was responsible for canning Levernier should be summarily fired in kind - or shot. The guys in the "Tiger Teams" who test the security of all Federal sites are invaluable. Denial doesn't accomplish shit. C'mon Dubya, Rummy - get this guy back in the saddle and shitcan the clowns who can't handle the heat nor the assignment - this is important shit, not some idiotic political game. *heavy sigh* |
Posted by: .com 2003-10-7 4:29:05 AM |