A spokesman for Livermore labs declined to comment because the issue was under investigation.

But since then we have problem - you know, it turned out the Chinese of the new sub-detection technology from the Livermore lab.

Mr. Nuckolls said that eventually the work load might lessen, but that the Livermore lab was rapidly diversifying and hoped to remain about the same size.

With its original mission no longer available, the Livermore lab tried radical new designs, that failed.

They just might have been able to raid the Livermore labs before the brazen takeover that was called the "War" nowadays.

Yet that hardly conveys a level of concentration that probably wouldn't feel out of place at Livermore lab.

Others have been through every test and dissection the Livermore labs could come up with.

And the energy savings available from new, efficient appliances will cut 400 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, equal to the pollution from 16 million cars, according to the Livermore lab.

Dr. York, the former arms designer, who once directed the Livermore lab, said very small blasts made little or no sense.

Early this year, Dr. Woodruff brought his accusations to the University of California, which oversees the Livermore lab for the United States Department of Energy.