Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/ [parrot-farm.net], and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.

--Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005

Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/, and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.

--Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005

Until the whistle-blowing claim turns out to have been true.

He didn't have a chance. The Oracle Beast disrupted him down to the cellular level.

Sorry to post a follow-up to my follow-up.

No, I'm not either -- you really need to see this post from the current LANL blog. It does a nice job of conveying the current level of morale there:

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html

The "Kevin" referred to in the post is Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official lab spokesperson.

They still do:

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/

And morale is even worse these days. Bechel has been a disaster since they took over the contract for LANL.

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html [blogspot.com]

The "Kevin" reference is to Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official spokesperson for Loas Alamos National Labs.

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2009/02/larry-moe-and-kevin.html

The "Kevin" reference is to Kevin Roarke, the "truth-challenged" official spokesperson for Loas Alamos National Labs.

With it you can encrypt what you need.