{"id":1024,"date":"2004-07-17T23:44:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T03:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/los_alamos_woes\/"},"modified":"2004-07-17T23:44:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-18T03:44:52","slug":"los_alamos_woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/los_alamos_woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Alamos Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I didn&#8217;t realize Bill Clinton had <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=5697462\">assumed the presidency again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key U.S. center for nuclear weapons research, has suspended virtually all its operations after an intern sustained a serious eye injury while working with a laser, a spokesman said on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe Friday accident, capping a series of embarrassing security and safety lapses for the lab, led new director Peter Nanos to determine that a lab-wide assessment of all operations was needed, spokesman Jim Fallin said. Nanos on Thursday had suspended all classified research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Clinton and the University of California are in cahoots with this somehow.  But the show will go on.  After all, we&#8217;ve got the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are not going to hamper national security needs,&#8221; said Fallin. &#8220;We understand that the nation is at war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, how is it that we need the work of a nuclear research lab to fight shadowy warriors welding box cutters and suicide bombs?  Are we going to nuke Fallujah?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/los_alamos_woes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Los Alamos Woes\"><p>Hey, I didn&#8217;t realize Bill Clinton had assumed the presidency again: The Los Alamos National Laboratory, a key U.S. center for nuclear weapons research, has suspended virtually all its operations after an intern sustained a serious eye injury while working with a laser, a spokesman said on Saturday. The Friday accident, capping a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}