N-chink: US labs forget warhead design

AGENCIES via The Times of India ^ | 11 Mar 2009, 0159 hrs | AGENCIES

[OneWingedShark]

Why am I tempted to point and say “Ha, ha!”?

[kc8ukw]

This sort of thing is just going to become more common in our ever more complicated world, I think. One of my worries with designing new nuclear weapons only with computer models is that the model will become a sort of “black box” that we use, but don’t really understand.

[bgill]

Couldn’t they have just called Russia, China, or any of a dozen other countries for the repair manual?

[San Jacinto]

No problem. Obama can just ask the Iranians.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

You mean, like that automated diagnosis machine in Idiocracy? Heheheh!

[xcamel]

Local content (FOX News)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203115/posts

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What about that Pakistani dude they just let free ... from his house.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Yep, the Clinton-era promotion and hiring freezes and military laboratory consolidations/BRACs resulted in a major brain drain within the military RDT&E community, and a “knowledge gap” in weapons design and manufacture that is biting the U.S. in the arse right now.

[PGR88]

Don’t worry - the Chinese have good back-up copies of all the documents.

[Melchior]

I’m from the government and I’m here to protect you.

[ßuddaßudd]

I beleive the answer lies within the title.

[txroadkill]

I’m from the government and I’m here to protect you.

They can't help you, they are all tied up responding to 911 calls over chicken nuggets at McDonalds

I’m from the government and I’m here to protect you.

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

[trooprally]

Did you save any of the info under your mattress?

[Mr] T

[garyhope]

“Don’t worry - the Chinese have good back-up copies of all the documents.”

Courtesy of Clinton appointee, Hazel O’Leary.

Read up on her if you dare. You’ll be afraid, very, very afraid.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://nofreelunchjournal.com/images/225px-hazel_oleary.jpg&imgrefurl=http://nofreelunchjournal.com/perm_pages/2008.02.03_hazel_oleary.html&usg=__LBh9xHn805rOBfSvX3PViTVY0Uw=&h=181&w=225&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=MI9bCiO7ikLDfM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhazel%2Bo%2527leary%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLJ_en%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

[SENTINEL]

They could just buy some plans back from the Chinese.

[Texas Fossil]

I absolutely do not believe this. There is no way this is as is being presented.

[Aroostook25]

That’s nothin! Wait ‘till after Obama gets rid of the rest of our weapons systems.

[1010RD]

a sort of “black box” that we use, but don’t really understand.

This has already occurred for most people with the toaster.