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Security weaknesses uncovered in Los Alamos National Laboratory's classified computer network could increase the risk of a breach of classified information, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a new report.
An independent safety oversight board is warning that a major earthquake could cause a catastrophic fire triggering a massive radiation leak at the main plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Scientists familiar with the work of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist whose house was searched by the FBI said he is not a spy.
The U.S. Department of Energy's inspector general says Los Alamos County firefighters aren't sufficiently trained to handle the unique fires they could face with hazardous or radioactive materials at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 67 computers, including 13 that were lost or stolen in the past year. Officials say no classified information has been lost.
Three Los Alamos National Laboratory computers were taken from a scientist's home and a Blackberry belonging to another employee was lost overseas, but lab officials say no sensitive information would have been lost.
A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.
Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
A former archivist at Los Alamos National Laboratory was sentenced Thursday to two years' probation for taking home secret data from the nuclear weapons facility.
The University of California has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million over a security breakdown at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's premier nuclear weapons labs, is preparing to lay off hundreds of people in anticipation of federal budget cuts, a lab spokesman said Monday.
The White House said Friday that President Bush has chosen a replacement for the man ousted as head of the government's nuclear weapons program in the wake of reports of embarrassing security breakdowns.
Authorities in northern New Mexico have stumbled onto what appears to be classified information from Los Alamos National Laboratory while arresting a man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his mobile home.
Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed an underground radio designed to locate trapped miners or help emergency crews communicate with each other during disasters.
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Metamaterials May Eliminate FrictionThe groundbreaking research, conducted through mathematical simulations, revealed the possibility of a new class of materials able to exert a repulsive force when they are placed in extremely close proximity to each other.
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U.S. Accidentally Releases Secret List of Nuclear SitesThe federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked "highly confidential," that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel fo …
Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger than SteelResearch by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. More Articles
The media and various experts are telling us to be calm about the imminent Swine Flu pandemic, but not complacent. What, exactly does that mean, and what can we expect?
Soviets Stole Bomb Idea From U.S., Book SaysNow, a new book says Moscow acquired the secret of the hydrogen bomb not from its own scientists but from an atomic spy at the Los Alamos weapons lab in New Mexico. More Articles
Layoffs at nuke lab stir fears of a brain drain - Yahoo! NewsSAN FRANCISCO - The nation's top nuclear weapons design lab has laid off hundreds of workers, raising concerns about a brain drain and stirring fears that some of these highly specialized scientists will sell their expertise to foreign governments, perhaps hostile ones. ADVERTIS …
KOB.com - Groups criticize planned prescribed burn at LANLLOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Watchdog groups are criticizing a plan by Los Alamos National Laboratory to set two prescribed burns. The groups worry about potential health impacts from the fires on areas once used for high explosives and depleted uranium experiments.
A Spy's Path: Iowa to A-Bomb to Kremlin Honor - New York TimesHe had all-American cover: born in Iowa, college in Manhattan, Army buddies with whom he played baseball. George Koval also had a secret. During World War II, he was a top Soviet spy, code named Delmar and trained by Stalin's ruthless bureau of military intelligence.
Las Cruces Sun-News - Report: Los Alamos subcontractor costs often exceed estimatesALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Los Alamos National Laboratory's chief subcontractor underestimated the cost of work at the lab 75 percent of the time between January 2005 and April 2007, according to a government inspection.
Los Alamos beefs up security in wake of data theftThe theft of classified information by a contractor's former employee has forced the Los Alamos National Laboratory to implement a variety of tactical and strategic security policies commonly found in a private enterprise.
End Times - The Death of the Fourth EstateAlexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St.
Los Alamos Blocks Researcher Access to ArchivesLos Alamos National Laboratory will no longer permit historians and other researchers to have access to its archival records because Los Alamos National Security (LANS), the private contractor that now operates the Lab[!], says it has "no policy in place" that would allow such ac …
Nuclear Pioneer Chauncey Starr DiesNuclear pioneer Chauncey Starr, the founder of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, died April 17 at his Atherton home. He was 95.
(This was originally posted in December) Prior to the election, there were scattered reports of another 'security lapse' regarding nuclear secrets at Los Alamos. Some of these reports posited scary 'what if?' scenarios regarding the War on Terror (TM).
911blogger.com/"GeorgeWashington" outed as a front for Professor Steven E. JonesWhile 911bloglines.blogspot tried to figure out the real identity of "GeorgeWashington", one of the 4 moderators of 911blogger.com, coincidentally his background confirmed also a further close association to Professor Steven E. Jones and Los Alamos.
Space elevators: 'First floor, deadly radiation!' Space elevators are touted as a novel and cheap way to get cargo, and possibly people, into space one day. So far, they have barely left the drawing board, but ultimately robots could climb a cable stretching 100,000 kilometres from Earth's surface into space.
Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be 'Devastating'If a nuclear weapon were stolen, the information "would tell the terrorists everything they need to do to get a weapon to fire."
Daily Kos: ANOTHER Nuclear Security Breach on the GOP WatchIf a nuclear weapon were stolen, the information "would tell the terrorists everything they need to do to get a weapon to fire."
Nuclear Lab Breach Included US Weapons Design Secretshe recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons, officials tell CBS News.Officials say there is no evidence the …
Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be 'Devastating', CBS News Exclusive: Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets - CBS NewsThe recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons, officials tell CBS News.
US Gov Provides "Basic How To" on Nuclear Weapons - Non Proliferation IndeedLast March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war.
Brand New Substance Created from WaterIf you think we know all there is to know about water, think again. Scientists claim they have created a totally new alloy of hydrogen and oxygen molecules by splitting water.
Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents Local police found the documents while arresting a man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his mobile home, said Sgt. Chuck Ney of the Los Alamos, N.M., Municipal Police Department.
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