The Christian Science Monitor, June 22nd, 2000
Behind the political thrust-and-parry over accountability at the nation's nuclear labs is a fundamental problem that has confounded the government since the dawn of the Atomic Age: the clash between science and security. The US government has tried for 50 years to balance the two sides, giving scientists as much latitude as possible to freely exchange ideas - but also setting up a cloistered environment to ensure that no nuclear-weapons secrets are released. But the recent lost-and-found episode over computer hard drives at Los Alamos National Laboratory shows the difficulty of keeping these...
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