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December 24th, 2009, 03:20
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According to Project on Government Oversight's Senior Investigator, Peter Stockton, this incident "is a new twist in the long history of screw-ups by Los Alamos." I can't really blame him for saying that when testing a gun results in several million dollars of structural damage, propels doors away from the building, and leaves pieces of the weapon spread out on the ground outside. Geez.
Let's look at the positive side of this though. The gun was a mess, but they discovered a heck of a bomb here, no? [Pogo (http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/alerts/nuclear-security-safety/nss-lanl-20091223.html) via Wired (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/blast-los-alamos-researchers-accidentially-demolish-building-with-a-cannon/)]
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According to Project on Government Oversight's Senior Investigator, Peter Stockton, this incident "is a new twist in the long history of screw-ups by Los Alamos." I can't really blame him for saying that when testing a gun results in several million dollars of structural damage, propels doors away from the building, and leaves pieces of the weapon spread out on the ground outside. Geez.
Let's look at the positive side of this though. The gun was a mess, but they discovered a heck of a bomb here, no? [Pogo (http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/alerts/nuclear-security-safety/nss-lanl-20091223.html) via Wired (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/blast-los-alamos-researchers-accidentially-demolish-building-with-a-cannon/)]
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