July 18, 2004

Los Alamos Closed

Los Alamos Lab Halts Operations

By Noah Shachtman
05:30 PM Jul. 16, 2004 PT
Los Alamos National Laboratory director Pete Nanos shut down the country's leading nuclear weapons lab on Friday, after a set of classified computer disks disappeared and a student was hit in the eye with a powerful laser beam -- all in the space of a week.

"As of today, director Nanos has suspended all operations at the laboratory," an internal e-mail obtained by Wired News read. "This is a very serious step."

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