July 7, 2000
Critics of Los Alamos Ignore a Flawed Policy on Secrets
The root causes of the recurring security failures at Los Alamos National Laboratory, we are told, involve a clash between the culture of security and the culture of scientific inquiry.
The weapons lab's security has been under scrutiny since last year, when Wen Ho Lee, a former scientist there, was accused of improperly downloading and copying materials from a classified computer network. When, more recently, two computer hard drives containing nuclear
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