{"id":1261,"date":"2009-02-06T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/dev\/wordpress\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2009-02-06T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T19:26:35","slug":"obama-wants-to-put-federal-nuclear-weapons-labs-under-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants to put federal nuclear weapons labs under the Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an AP story carried here in the Marine Corps Times, Obama is considering placing the federal laboratories that developed nuclear weapons under the military.\u00a0 This would be a dangerous development.<\/p>\n<p>The AP writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration is considering moving the nation&#8217;s federal weapons complex, including New Mexico&#8217;s Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, under military control, ending decades of civilian oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civilian management stems from a World War II decision by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the top scientist on the secret Manhattan Project that built the world&#8217;s first atomic bomb and led to the founding of Los Alamos lab. Oppenheimer had the weapons designed by civilian scientists rather than military officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2009\/02\/ap_obama_labs_020409\/\">http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2009\/02\/ap_obama_labs_020409\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an AP story carried here in the Marine Corps Times, Obama is considering placing the federal laboratories that developed nuclear weapons under the military.\u00a0 This would be a dangerous development. The AP writes: The Obama administration is considering moving the nation&#8217;s federal weapons complex, including New Mexico&#8217;s Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=1261\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama wants to put federal nuclear weapons labs under the Pentagon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}