“60 MINUTES” DELAYS NUKE LAB SEC’Y DRILLS

“The Bush administration is putting off test assaults on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other U.S. nuclear-weapons sites on the eve of a 60 Minutes report on lax nuclear security,” long-time nuke-watcher Ian Hoffman reports.
The Ed Bradley-delivered story also focuses on problems at thr Y-12 nuclear storage facility. The Energy Department said that security drills had been faked there, for maybe as long as twenty years.
THERE’S MORE: That 60 Minutes report is now online here.

February 13th, 2004 | Los Alamos and Labs | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.