I have a personal stake and story regarding Egger’s piece.
My daughter in law works at Los Alamos; specifically on the safe handling and proper maintenance of America’s nuclear arsenal.
And I mean specific: the actual nuclear bombs and the actual fissile material that makes them go “boom”.
“The skill set is so narrowly specific that there might be five guys (or gals, in my daughter in law’s case) in the entire U.S. who can do it,” said one employee. “And you might have just fired one, two or three are retired, and the other is based somewhere else in the U.S. and doesn’t want to move. So you’re hosed.”
(Again, he’s talking specifically about my daughter in law here. She was plucked from GE and oddly enough Musk’s Spacex company was after her too. She was able to make them offer my son a top job at Los Alamos too as part of the deal to get her; he’s only got a doctorate in Material Science, so they put him in charge of deploying the new small sized nuclear power plants that are being developed on the nuclear power generation side of Los Alamos).
My take:
Trump and Musk are putting our safety individually and as a country at grave risk here.
I have a personal stake and story regarding Egger’s piece.
My daughter in law works at Los Alamos; specifically on the safe handling and proper maintenance of America’s nuclear arsenal.
And I mean specific: the actual nuclear bombs and the actual fissile material that makes them go “boom”.
“The skill set is so narrowly specific that there might be five guys (or gals, in my daughter in law’s case) in the entire U.S. who can do it,” said one employee. “And you might have just fired one, two or three are retired, and the other is based somewhere else in the U.S. and doesn’t want to move. So you’re hosed.”
(Again, he’s talking specifically about my daughter in law here. She was plucked from GE and oddly enough Musk’s Spacex company was after her too. She was able to make them offer my son a top job at Los Alamos too as part of the deal to get her; he’s only got a doctorate in Material Science, so they put him in charge of deploying the new small sized nuclear power plants that are being developed on the nuclear power generation side of Los Alamos).
My take:
Trump and Musk are putting our safety individually and as a country at grave risk here.