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by Bob Brandon....
They're worth millions, in dollars, and lives.
The infamous Los Alamos hard drives that were lost, and and then found
behind a copier inside a secure area, contain extremely sensitive data
concerning nuclear weapons.
With this precious info,
special technicians could disarm US and possibly foreign warheads in case
of an emergency. At least that's the story we've been told.
To be honest, they aren't being honest. Los Alamos' X Division, where
the missing drives belong is shrouded in secrecy.
By necessity, these matters
of national security must be protected. Unfortunately, Los Alamos
doesn't do a very good job of that. In recent years, the lab has
been the target of severe scrutiny due to several major security
lapses.
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Last year it was charged they
were the victims of Chinese spies, who stole the designs to the W-88 warhead,
and God-knows what else.
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Then there was Wen Ho Lee, who
is being held on charges that he copied and electronically moved nuclear-warhead
secrets outside the lab's secure fence.
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Then last spring, 8 Los Alamos
plutonium workers were exposed to potentially deadly radiation. The
plutonium unit has been criticized often in the past.
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Then the completely inexcusable
wildfire. While it can't be blamed on the administrators at Los Al,
it did lead to the filching of the hard drives.
To hear the security guys tell
it, they scoured the entire area, many times over and would have surely
seen the drives if they had been behind the copier all along. Therefore,
someone obviously moved them somewhere long enough to transfer the data,
and then clumsily returned them. Someone who has access to the ultra-secure
area.
Staff members have been subjected
to polygraph tests, and some of them did not exactly pass with a smile.
But the results are not conclusive enough apparently to make an arrest.
Congress just asked for the
resignation of the Secretary of Energy to pay for the security problems.
But he's not not personally responsible for this breach. Here's where the
blame belongs, with:
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The folks who have been turning
the other way while China steals our technology.
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The folks who just can't seem
to figure out who in the world would do such a heinous thing?
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It's the obscenely-overpaid
executive scientists whose real purpose has become obsolete, yet every
year, they get more and more millions for nuclear research.
Isn't the cold war over?
Aren't we trying to rid the planet of these massively destructive devices?
Don't we want the human race to survive into the next millenium?
Then why do we allow these modern mad scientists to perpetuate the nuclear
arms situation? And why do they allow such dangerous material to
be stolen and probably used against us by the Chinese and others?
Why?
We need some real answers,
not just a few rolling heads. By forcing Energy Secretary Bill Richardson
to resign, Congress sends a message that they're concerned. But that's
all. It doesn't clean up the mess. And it sure doesn't patch
the huge leak that's sending our childrens' security right down the bloody
drain.
Someone has been paid handsomely
for smuggling this info. I wonder if they worry about their souls.
I know I do. |
 
 
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