April 9, 1999
Report Says American Scientists Are Needed for U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Arsenal
The nation's nuclear-weapons program faces a "crisis of talent" if it does not recruit young American scientists to replace experts who are nearing retirement, a new report says.
Although no immediate emergency exists, recruiting has fallen off substantially since the end of the Cold War, according to the U.S. Commission on Maintaining United States Nuclear Weapons Expertise, an advisory panel to the Department of Energy. Within 15
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