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	Nuclear arms worker found with 'secret' papers - World - smh.com.au
		A drug raid on the home of a scientist at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico turned up what appeared to be classified documents taken from the facility, the FBI said today.
		Los Alamos has a history of high-profile security problems in the past decade, with the most notable the case of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
		Even though Los Alamos is under new management, Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, said the lab has not done much to clean up its act.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/nuclear-arms-worker-found-with-secret-papers/2006/10/25/1161699384000.html (459 words)

	Los Alamos National Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Los Alamos is one of two laboratories in the United States where classified work towards the design of nuclear weapons is undertaken.
		The laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons.
		Los Alamos National Laboratory is a partner in the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) located in Walnut Creek, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory (1733 words)

	Society for Philosophy and Technology - volume 3, number 3
		The nuclear weapons complex (a nascent science in the 1940s) was a central part of this, and indeed represented one of the first large government-sponsored scientific programs to become imbedded in a technological infrastructure.
		Los Alamos's employment of the ENIAC for a hydrogen weapon calculation was not only novel in 1945, but it signaled the beginning of a crucial relationship between the nuclear weapons complex and computers.
		Weapons scientists were bound by the limits of technology and thus had to adjust their research program under political pressure—with the limits of the technological infrastructure in mind.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v3n3/FITZPATR.html (2388 words)

	Planet Ark : UPDATE - Los Alamos nuclear lab closes as forest fire looms
		LOS ALAMOS - The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico was closed down on Monday and hundreds of people were evacuated from nearby homes as a forest fire raged perilously close to the top secret U.S. facility.
		Los Alamos National Laboratory Director John Browne said that by Monday afternoon the fire was just 200 yards from the edge of the laboratory's huge grounds but still several miles from the laboratory's plutonium facility.
		Browne said the laboratory's plutonium facility was located on the northeast side of the complex, far away from the western perimeter that was threatened by the fire, adding that there was very little material to fuel a fire in its vicinity.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=6592 (780 words)

	Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses More Data
		The Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's most important nuclear weapons lab, lost another hard disk drive filled with classified information, once again throwing a spotlight on lab officials who have been trying to re-emerge from years of scandals and mismangement.
		A Los Alamos press release played down the incident, calling it "a single accounting discrepancy (that) in no way constitutes a compromise of national security." Los Alamos has tens of thousands of removable hard drives, discs and memory sticks.
		In addition, former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is in jail awaiting trial and could face a maximum of life in prison for security violations.
	www.rense.com /general53/los.htm (1271 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Fire Sweeps Through Los Alamos
		LOS ALAMOS, N.M. —— Driven by swirling wind of up 55 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their foundations in the town where the atomic bomb was built.
		At the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory, flames burned trailers and portable buildings, rolled past concrete bunkers containing explosives, and came within 300 yards of a plutonium storage facility.
		Los Alamos, 70 miles north of Albuquerque, is essentially a company town for the weapons laboratory, which employs 7,000 people at buildings scattered throughout the city.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/May2000/0512firesweeps.htm (814 words)

	UT and the Nuclear World Order
		The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, at Los Alamos was the B61 "mod-11" gravity bomb during the spring of 1997.
		Los Alamos is the one facility in the country that currently manufactures these pits since all the work on pit production was transferred to the lab from Rocky Flats.
		Los Alamos initially put 15 on leave in connection with the two missing zip disks and later four in connection with laser incident involving the 20 year old intern.
	www.utwatch.org /war/losalamos.html (5050 words)

	Earth Changes TV - Los Alamos Labs Near Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico was evacuated Monday as a forest fire raged perilously close to the top-secret U.S. facility.
		Public schools in Los Alamos were also closed and about 500 homes in the area evacuated as a precaution, officials said.
		The laboratory is surrounded by forest in the hills of northern New Mexico.
	www.earthchangestv.com /breaking/May2000/0508losalamos.htm (438 words)

	Los Alamos Hopes To Lead New Era Of Nuclear Space Tranportion With Jovian Mission
		Los Alamos is leading reactor design for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission, which would orbit Callisto, Ganymede and Europa to study their makeup, possible vast oceans beneath the ice, their history and potential for sustaining life.
		Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.
		Los Alamos develops and applies science and technology to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent; reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation and terrorism; and solve national problems in defense, energy, environment and infrastructure.
	www.spacedaily.com /reports/Los_Alamos_Hopes_To_Lead_New_Era_Of_Nuclear_Space_Tranportion_With_Jovian_Mission.html (1104 words)

	pogo.org Los Alamos National Laboratory Project On Government Oversight
		Los Alamos police arrived at the trailer park after receiving a domestic violence call and discovered drug paraphernalia that suggested the home was being used as a factory for the production of methamphetamine, or crystal meth.
		Los Alamos police responding to a domestic violence call on Oct. 17 at the home of former laboratory subcontractor Jessica Quintana found three thumb drives with markings indicating they came from the lab, according to Jessica Blea, an office specialist for the police department.
		The head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and his deputy are leaving their posts at the helm of the scandal-ridden facility in the wake of charges of widespread theft, fraud and security lapses....
	www.pogo.org /p/environment/eo-losalamos.html (6428 words)

	Yorkshire CND - New Los Alamos Facility Will X-Ray Aging Nuclear Weapons - 3/4//03
		Los Alamos - Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed construction of the second stage of the world's most powerful flash X-ray machine, a key experimental tool needed to study how aging nuclear weapons behave in the absence of nuclear testing.
		The complex, four-pulse second-axis accelerator was designed, tested and built through a major collaboration among three national laboratories managed by the University of California - Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley - and the Department of Defense's MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
		Laboratory management and federal representatives will formally dedicate the DARHT facility in ceremonies scheduled for April 22, as part of the Laboratory's 60th anniversary celebrations.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/losalamosxrays.htm (881 words)

	Los Alamos National Laboratory: Nuclear Weapons: Homepage
		Through the decades, the role of nuclear weapons in US defense strategy has remained unchanged: they provide the ultimate deterrent against aggression.
		However, most everything else has changed: the number of weapons in the stockpile is decreasing; the average age of those weapons is increasing; and the size of the weapons complex has been shrinking.
		Although you've probably heard or read various accounts in the popular media, the actual number of US nuclear weapons after 1961 is classified information.
	www.lanl.gov /natlsecurity/nuclear/index.shtml (275 words)

	Nuclear Weapons
		Although new weapons are no longer being produced, the stockpile has the equivalent explosive force of about 120,000 Hiroshima bombs, according to Stephen I. Schwartz, chairman of the four-year project.
		The Stage: The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory.
		During an investigation by the Department of Energy to determine how secure U.S. nuclear facilities were against terrorist attacks it was determined that there are more than 5,000 pounds (two and a half tons) of plutonium missing or unaccounted for, 2,400 pounds alone from its Rocky Flats weapons factory near Denver.
	www.countdown.org /end/nuclear_weapons_04.htm (1611 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - World Reports (Winter/Spring 1998-1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CWIT's conclusion is based upon a review of open sources written by nuclear weapons analysts and upon an aerial inspection of the base, which confirmed the presence of dozens of concrete bunkers suspected of containing 1600 warheads, and three Ohio-class missile submarines.
		Weapons analysts Robert Norris and William Arkin of the Natural Resources Defense Council estimate that the number of US nuclear weapons in all categories (operational, hedge, reserve and retired warheads awaiting dismantling) stands at 12,500.
		Coulport, the British Trident fleet's nuclear weapons depot, is on a peninsula in the Firth of Clyde.
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/winter99/fe_winter99weap.html (2024 words)

	Bin Laden's Nuclear Connection by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, April 25, 2005
		Chief among those who clearly saw the nuclear future--as we have lived and are living it--was the "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, who developed a plan for a nuclear-free world and did his best to promote this alternative path.
		America's nuclear monopoly was "the great equalizer," Secretary of War Henry Stimson triumphantly declared in July 1945 at the Potsdam conference upon learning of the success of the atomic bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
		Oppenheimer's efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons at the beginning of the atomic age are as applicable today as they were then.
	www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2005/04/25_bird-sherwin_bin-ladens-nuclear-connection.htm (1596 words)

	Student Statement Opposing UC-Bechtel Bid : LA IMC
		With the demise of the Soviet Union, many assumed that the role of nuclear weapons in our nation’s security would be reduced, and the opportunity to move toward nuclear disarmament would finally be seized.
		The Laboratory is currently manufacturing small batches of plutonium pits (the cores of nuclear weapons).
		We call on the Regents to recognize that the further proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is not the proper role of a university.
	la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=126784 (590 words)

	Richardson: Profiling Probe in Dept
		Richardson said in an interview that he remains convinced that Lee, Taiwan-born former Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory scientist, was not singled out in an espionage investigation because of his Asian background.
		Last month Lee, 60, who was fired from his job at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in March 1999, was freed from jail after the government dropped all but one of 59 security violation charges.
		For three years prior to Lee's firing at Los Alamos, he was the primary focus of an FBI investigation into the alleged loss in the 1980s of plans for one of the country's most sophisticated nuclear warheads.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20001009/aponline180741_000.htm (535 words)

	STAND - Students Take Action for New Directions
		Resistance to war, to the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy is impossible without resistance to sexism, to racism, to imperialism, and to violence as an every day pervasive reality.
		Los Alamos — the birthplace of the atomic bomb -- since the lab’s inception in 1943.
		Plutonium pits are the cores of nuclear weapons.
	www.wand.org /stand/mondays/monday11_11_05.htm (3987 words)

	Congressional Bills Passed Support Bush Agenda for New Nuclear Weapons, by By Justine Wang, December 9, 2003
		The 2004 bills include proposals to research a new generation of “usable” nuclear weapons, construct a plutonium pit facility and shorten readiness for nuclear testing, revealing the administration’s intent to rely on its nuclear forces for many decades to come - a stark contrast to US demands that other nations should forgo their nuclear arms.
		The detonation of such a weapon would create massive collateral damage; the targeting of underground stockpiles of chemical and/or biological weapons could spread dangerous contaminants and between 10,000-50,000 people would be exposed to a fatal dose radiation within 24 hours if used in urban areas.
		The construction of the MPF could produce the next generation of nuclear weapons with the introduction of “mini-nukes” and “bunker busters” and could also facilitate the contingency held open by the Bush administration to bring old nuclear weapons out of storage and back on active duty.
	www.wagingpeace.org /articles/2003/12/09__wang_congressional-bills.htm (1883 words)

	CNN - Energy chief: Spy suspect downloaded classified nuclear weapons data - April 28, 1999
		Lee was the focus of an FBI probe into China's alleged theft from Los Alamos in the 1980s of design data for America's most advanced warhead, the W-88.
		The top-level secure network at Los Alamos is comprised of 1,000 to 2,000 devices capable of getting the data, including a variety of computers, servers and printers, according to a source at the Department of Energy familiar with the system.
		Since the data concerned weapons simulations, an outside security consultant tells CNNfn, it almost certainly was stored on one or more of the Los Alamos supercomputers on which it was run.
	www.cnn.com /US/9904/28/us.china.spy.02/index.html (890 words)

	Los Alamos, 12 May 2000
		LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) -- Driven by swirling wind of up 55 mph, fire rolled from block to block in abandoned Los Alamos on Thursday, burning scores of homes down to their foundations in the town where the atomic bomb was built.
		The wildfire first reached Los Alamos on Wednesday -- forcing the evacuation of the entire town -- and exploded in size from 3,700 acres to 20,000 Thursday night, fanned by blowtorch winds so strong they made parked cars sway.
		Tom Udall, whose district includes Los Alamos, said earlier that federal officials estimated 300 to 400 were burned.
	www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /media/2003/news_05122000_1.htm (890 words)

	Layers to Los Alamos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If he wants to know why the message about nuclear security is not getting down to the bottom, he should pull out the Department of Energy phone book and ask what happened at every link in his chain of command.
		Richardson should then dial up his deputy secretary for a talk, and finish this second string of calls by asking to be transferred to the deputy secretary's senior policy adviser, followed by his special assistant.
		Richardson should next talk to his undersecretary for nuclear security, who also acts as the administrator of the newly created Nuclear Security Administration and also holds the title of principal deputy administrator for military application.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/light/20000628.htm (583 words)

	Network Endpoint Security News - Watch Your End » Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Data Found on Three USB Flash Drives ...
		The FBI is investigating a worker from the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the possible source of classified information from the nuclear-weapons facility discovered during the arrest of a New Mexico man on drug charges.
		Jessica Quintana was questioned after Los Alamos police found classified nuclear data on three USB flash drives during a search of the trailer she shares with another man who was being investigated for drug charges.
		Flash drives have been banned from the Los Alamos laboratory for the past two years, yet one must wonder how this policy is actually being enforced.
	www.watchyourend.com /2006/10/27/los-alamos-nuclear-weapons-data-found-on-three-usb-flash-drives-during-drug-raid (271 words)

	U.S. Lab Fires Investigators After Reports Are Leaked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ALBUQUERQUE, Nov. 27 (AP) — The Los Alamos National Laboratory discharged two investigators this week after their reports on theft and fraud there were given anonymously to a watchdog group, the two men and laboratory officials said on Tuesday.
		On Tuesday, a spokesman for the laboratory, Jim Danneskiold, said he could not say why the two men had been discharged but added that they were still in their probationary periods and could be dismissed at the laboratory's discretion, as long as the ousters were not retaliatory.
		The University of California operates Los Alamos, a nuclear weapons laboratory, for the Energy Department.
	foi.missouri.edu /whistleblowing/uslabfires.html (342 words)

	UC Nuclear Free: Get Involved: UC Student Statement
		With the demise of the Soviet Union, many assumed that the role of nuclear weapons in our nation's security would be reduced, and the opportunity to move toward nuclear disarmament would finally be seized.
		The Laboratory is currently manufacturing small batches of plutonium pits (the cores of nuclear weapons).
		We call on the Regents to recognize that the further proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is not the proper role of a university.
	www.ucnuclearfree.org /menu/get-involved/regents-meetings/student-statement.htm (553 words)

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		The woman is a contract employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to an FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.
		A spokesman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, N.M., declined to comment.
		Even though Los Alamos is now under new management, Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, said the lab has not done much to clean up its act.
	www.cbn.com /CBNnews/46401.aspx (573 words)

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