The many-faceted drama at the troubled Los Alamos National Laboratory has produced some strange moments. But this has to be the weirdest of them all: Los Alamos equipment buyer Lillian Anaya thought she was ordering $30,000 worth of transducers. But she dialed a number that had been changed from an industrial equipment dealer to an […]
June 2003
A consortium of mercenary groups has made the UN a deceptively simple proposal: give us $200 million, and we’ll help bring an end to the war in the Congo. Is the offer a symbol of how bad things have gotten there? Sure. But could it be, in the words of one observer, the only solution […]
I’ll be on BBC TV tonite, around 9 pm EDT, to talk nuclear security.
When Attorney General John Ashcroft proposed last year that a civilian army be recruited to snoop on their neighbors, privacy advocates and Congressional leaders gagged. Now, it seems, Ashcroft’s Operation TIPS is back — and now, it’s being run by the Pentagon. Brian McWilliams writes in Wired News: To track domestic terrorist threats against the […]
Three months ago, we found out that investigators were told to “fake their investigation” into security lapses at Sandia National Laboratories, one of the world’s most important weapons research facilities. Today, only after very public complaints from the Senate, has the Lab finally started to clean house. Dave Nokes, vice president for national security, has […]
