Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has ordered two senior-level Energy Department officials to oversee an investigation into missing computer discs from Los Alamos National Laboratory's weapons physics directorate. Deputy Energy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow and National Nuclear Security Administration chief Linton Brooks will examine "underlying security failures" at the New Mexico lab, a center for nuclear weapons research, according to a DOE statement released yesterday. The inquiry to date "indicates widespread disregard of security procedures by laboratory employees," Abraham said. While conducting...
