[net.sf-lovers] WarGames in Los Alamos

Newman.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/19/83)

The Los Alamos lab and its computers are operated by the University of
California for the Department of Energy.  The Department of Energy is
responsible for BOTH nuclear power and nuclear weapons programs.  Los
Alamos is very definitely a weapons lab, not a nuclear power lab.  I see
nothing wrong with the newspaper reports on this incident.

/Ron

davies@uiuccsb.UUCP (08/28/83)

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uiuccsb!davies    Aug 27 20:59:00 1983

Wrongness varies from story to story.   A local newspaper here stated in
an editorial that a group of 100 teenagers had broken into a top-secret
computer at the Pentagon.   I suspect ignorance rather than sensationalism
was the reason behind this slip-up, though (the editor of this newspaper is
not widely known for being on the ball).