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Subject: Re: Wargames Flight Reservations - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Aug 16 00:42:00 1983


Re: Speaking of Wargames...
	Have you heard the latest uproar about the kids who broke into
	(among other things) the Los Alamos computer?....

	Also, one newspaper said that the computer they tapped into was 
	responsible for overseeing the manufacture of nuclear weapons.  
	(*Gasp!* go John and Jane Q. Public)  WRONG!  Most probably they
	should have said "nuclear POWER PLANTS", this being the Department
	of Energy's computer!

	Talk about Freudian slips...or, I guess it's just the sort of
	sensationalism the public wants to hear...

Just because it's the Department of Energy doesn't mean that it doesn't
do weapons work.  In fact, ALL nuclear weapons work is done under the
auspices of DOE.  Just as it used to be done under the Atomic Energy
Commission, which also did a lot of reactor research.

An aside: before the Reagan administration dropped their plans to abolish
DOE, they planned to put nuclear weapons under (can you guess?) the
Department of COMMERCE.  (This actually made a bit of sense: DOC oversees
interstate commerce, and it well-positioned to control and monitor the
transportation of nuclear materials.  Only, in the case of Reagan, it
doesn't make sense, given the substantial Mafia penetration of the trucking
industry, and Reagan's cavalier attitude toward appointing people suspected
of links to organized crime.)

	Michael Turner
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