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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Secrets, spying and Los Alamos

    Hard drives containing nuclear secrets have gone missing from the Los Alamos weapons lab weeks after administration officials said security flaws had been fixed. Does the U.S. sufficiently guard its secrets? Does it have too many secrets to guard? With advancing technology, can anything really be secret? How has espionage changed since the days of spy versus counterspy?

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    By Warren Olney • Jun 16, 2000 • 1 min read

    Hard drives containing nuclear secrets have gone missing from the Los Alamos weapons lab weeks after administration officials said security flaws had been fixed. Does the U.S. sufficiently guard its secrets? Does it have too many secrets to guard? With advancing technology, can anything really be secret? How has espionage changed since the days of spy versus counterspy?

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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