Books you're reading... and should read.
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I suspect you're probably not...
US energy department is a massive, massive US department responsible for many many things including the safe handling of nuclear materials and the nuclear power stations and working out if N Korea has weapons that can hit US cities to keeping the lights on in all the cities etc etc.
The day after the election not a single person turned up from Trumps team to take over, nor on day 2 or day 3.
Obama appointed a nuclear phyicist to run the department, Trump appointed a small "landing team" two weeks after the election led by an energy lobbyist who didn't have any security clearance so couldn't be briefed not even on "just the top 5 risks I need to know" (such as a breakdown at a nuclear powerplant)
One guy is quoted in the book who ran the DOE's 6 billion dollar basic science programme:
"We had tried desperately to prepare them, but that required them to show up, and bring qualified people, but they didn't. They didn't even ask for an introductory briefing like 'What do you do?'
You know what happens to almost all the senior level of management at a government department when a new president is elected? They leave, just up sticks and go. All that knowledge and experience in how to run the department just disappears and there was no-one taking over.
Roughly 2 billion US dollars of the DOE budget is spent on tracking and locating weapons grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world. Between 2010 and 2018 they seized enough material to make 160 nuclear weapons. The department trains every international atomic energy inspector
And on and on it goes. And this department had no handover and no interest in any handover from anyone in Trumps administration it's a clusterfuck of epic proportions and the world is a lot less a secure place because of their incompetence and lack of interest in running a government
US energy department is a massive, massive US department responsible for many many things including the safe handling of nuclear materials and the nuclear power stations and working out if N Korea has weapons that can hit US cities to keeping the lights on in all the cities etc etc.
The day after the election not a single person turned up from Trumps team to take over, nor on day 2 or day 3.
Obama appointed a nuclear phyicist to run the department, Trump appointed a small "landing team" two weeks after the election led by an energy lobbyist who didn't have any security clearance so couldn't be briefed not even on "just the top 5 risks I need to know" (such as a breakdown at a nuclear powerplant)
One guy is quoted in the book who ran the DOE's 6 billion dollar basic science programme:
"We had tried desperately to prepare them, but that required them to show up, and bring qualified people, but they didn't. They didn't even ask for an introductory briefing like 'What do you do?'
You know what happens to almost all the senior level of management at a government department when a new president is elected? They leave, just up sticks and go. All that knowledge and experience in how to run the department just disappears and there was no-one taking over.
Roughly 2 billion US dollars of the DOE budget is spent on tracking and locating weapons grade plutonium and uranium at loose in the world. Between 2010 and 2018 they seized enough material to make 160 nuclear weapons. The department trains every international atomic energy inspector
And on and on it goes. And this department had no handover and no interest in any handover from anyone in Trumps administration it's a clusterfuck of epic proportions and the world is a lot less a secure place because of their incompetence and lack of interest in running a government
I'm currently reading "The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn; she writes about her and her husband's walk around the SW Coast Path after they lost their house and business (due to a bad investment) and he was diagnosed with a terminal illness
Previous recent books have centred around TV detectives, including the first stories of Gently, Vera, Dalziel and Pascoe, Banks, and Beck. They're ok, and give an insight into the characters, but not a patch on Frost (frantic, really entertaining) and Wallander both of which I have all the books and read and re read them. Maigret is not bad, either, but they do start to become much of a mutchness
Previous recent books have centred around TV detectives, including the first stories of Gently, Vera, Dalziel and Pascoe, Banks, and Beck. They're ok, and give an insight into the characters, but not a patch on Frost (frantic, really entertaining) and Wallander both of which I have all the books and read and re read them. Maigret is not bad, either, but they do start to become much of a mutchness
The author was sf but according to the description at the start of the book had no truth whatsoever to do with anyone he knew. After speaking to him said it was very hard to get a publisher to agree to to publish a book on NI ,but it was a great “fictional” read. The angry sea was just a follow on, but easy reading.
