Implosion at Los Alamos How Corruption and Cover-ups Jeopardize America's Secrets

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With America supposedly under constant threat of terrorist attacks, important potential targets like New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and one of the world's top-secret weapons labs, would seem to be at the top of the list of protected sites. As this disturbing book shows, that has not been the case. Glenn Walp was the lead security inquirer for the U.S. in its investigation into mismanagement, security lapses, and outright criminality at Los Alamos. In less than a year, Walp and his colleague, Steven Doran, uncovered a pattern in the problems and corruption that occurred there. Throughout their investigations, the two were threatened that unless they participated in a cover-up, they would be fired. And they were. When they blew the whistle, a furious battle ensued that led to congressional investigations. This provocative book explores how this scandal happened, and why it persists today.