netForensics, Inc., the pioneer and recognized market leader in Security Information Management (SIM), has announced that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Information Assurance Response Center (IARC) has selected netForensics nFX. The netForensics solution will monitor approximately 400 security devices across the NNSA...

Cuckoo NEST MORE than trees and houses have gone up in smoke at Los Alamos in the seven weeks since a forestry-service fire ran out of control and immolated a large tract of the surrounding area. The most recent casualty is, at...

One of the nation's premier nuclear weapons labs plans to cut about 500 jobs because of rising costs stemming from a changeover in management and potential federal budget cuts.Layoffs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will mostly affect support and operations employees, spokeswoman Susan Houghton...

The National Nuclear Security Administration proposed a $1.1 million civil penalty against the former manager of a nuclear weapons lab for safety violations that included a researcher spreading radiological contamination to two other states and workers inhaling radioactive substances.The agency announced the notice of violation...

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to a close. Some 140,000 people died in the blasts, and many thousands died later from radiation sickness. The bombing of...