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At Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers collect full salaries for doing nothing Across those decades, the notion of keeping secrets from adversaries has simultaneously morphed into keeping secrets from the American public — and regulators.  by Alicia Inez Guzmán. Searchlight New Mexico, 8 Nov 23 A few days after beginning a new post at Los…

The nuclear weapons complex is so mismanaged that employees are collecting full salaries to play chess and catnap.

November 8, 2023 | At Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers collect full salaries for doing nothing

The incident was deemed serious enough for the Energy Departments National Nuclear Security Administration to cite Triad National Security for a lapse in worker safety.

The United States can't have it both ways: ratifying disarmament treaties while building facilities to arm nuclear warheads.

The Congressional Strategic Posture Commission has released a 160-page report that pushes for the U.S. to boost its nuclear capabilities, and buried in a footnote is a statement of how

Billions of dollars are being spent to refurbish the labs current facility, known as PF-4, so that it can produce the plutonium cores required to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

About two dozen people took part in the protest, organized by the Los Alamos Study Group, which supports nuclear disarmament.

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.