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Nuke Brain-Drain in Military ‘Bottomed Out,’ ‘Turned the Corner,’ LLNL Resident Scholar Says

Nuke Brain-Drain in Military ‘Bottomed Out,’ ‘Turned the Corner,’ LLNL Resident Scholar Says

A nuclear brain-drain in the military has shown signs of reversing course in the decade-plus since the mistaken delivery of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, the head of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research said Monday. “My sense of it is that that bottomed out,” Brad Roberts, director of the Livermore internal think tank, said in a webcast hosted by the Washington-based non-government group, the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. “The…

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