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Did Soviets steal H-bomb idea from Los Alamos?
A new book says that Soviets stole the secrets of the hydrogen bomb from Los Alamos National Labs.
The New York Times reported on “The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation,” by Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman. Historians believe the case for the key allegations in the book is [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Tragedy on the slopes, LANL intrigue — and Gov. Heather Wilson?
A 10-year-old Texas girl died Tuesday at Ski Santa Fe when she hit a tree, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal has a very interesting story about authors of a forthcoming book positing the theory that a Los Alamos scientist helped the Soviets build a hydrogen bomb.
It seems the Rail [...]
TODAY’S BLOG ROUNDUP: Power, money, nukes and water — Happy Kwanzaa!
There are 15 to 20 people who’ve told Diane Denish they’re interested in the lieutenant governor job if/when Richardson is confirmed as Secretary of Commerce and Denish moves into the governor’s office, Kate Nash writes on her Green Chile Chatter blog. Nash lists some of the names we’ve all been tossing around then points at [...]
NMI Q&A with… Frank Young
Former LANL contractor Frank Young talks about his work at the lab, the illness he believes he got there, and the politics of running an influential blog read by policymakers from Los Alamos to Washington.
Scientists heartened by potential appointees
President-elect Barack Obama has said he will take a different approach to health, environment and energy agencies.
Sandia Labs gets ‘outstanding’ rating
For the third consecutive year, Sandia National Laboratories have received the “outstanding” rating from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This is the highest rating the NNSA hands out after their assessments.
According to the news release:
NNSA awarded a one-year “Award Term Incentive” extension to Sandia’s contract, through September 2012, in recognition of the laboratory’s strong [...]
N.M. faces ‘crippling loss’ of power in new Congress
New Mexico will lose decades of experience and seniority in the U.S. House and Senate when the new Congress convenes next month, posing great challenges for the new delegation tasked with protecting the state’s interests in Washington.
Los Alamos insiders track travels of atomic bomb secrets
Two forthcoming books by insiders at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) narrate the journey of atomic secrets around the globe and offer explanations why the technology has traveled.
The books are featured in a story in The New York Times’s science section, which offers glimpses into the goings-on at Los Alamos and other nuclear sites. The [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Paralyzed N.M. woman faces eviction
A Silver City woman who uses a wheelchair and is paralyzed from the waist down says she’s being evicted from her apartment because her landlord discovered marijuana plants she grows under state license for medical reasons. Preservation of a modest Los Alamos building where the world’s first plutonium bombs were assembled has been named a [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: The NRA targets N.M. and Obama
New Mexico is a target in the NRA’s national campaign to paint Barack Obama as a threat to gun owners. John McCain appears to be losing the battle for Hispanics, or it would seem that way in Española. The embattled PRC candidate Jerome Block Jr. is running into more headwinds, this time from the League of [...]