Subject: U.S. Department of Energy

• Bugging Out

  The feds hold up germ experiments at Los Alamos National Lab

  February 11, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• The World According to Bechtel

  There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• It's a Bechtel World

  Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• The Anthrax Detector No One Wants

  October 24, 2001

• Fallout

  May 9, 2001

• The Path of Inquiry

  How research for this story was conducted

  May 2, 2001

• Language Arts for a New Millennium

  Learning Spanish (for your gardener), Thai (your hooker), Bureaucrat (your scientist friends), and Digital (your enemies)

  March 7, 2001

• M

  As they explore M-theory, will Bay Area physicists earn the eternal glory sure to reward the inventors of the Theory of Everything?

  February 10, 1999

• Building a Better Bomb

  While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

  May 27, 1998

• The New Nuclear Age

  Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions

  March 18, 1998

• U.S. Report: Wave of Laptop Thefts Hits Nuclear Weapons Lab Employees

  Gary, where'd you leave that laptop of yours?The toil of the Bay Area's laptop thieves used to be simple: Hang around parking lots and cafes, nab an unattended computer, and put ads on Craigslist.However, thanks to carelessness at an East Bay nuclear weapons lab, this workday has the potential to become much more tiring. Thanks to nuclear weapons workers' apparent habit of abandoning government laptops in public places, computer thieves may be now compelled to forgo Craigslist, and instead make

  July 2, 2009