On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Johnson
<johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

>
> On the gripping hand, Oak Ridge may never really gotten out of it’s "Manhattan Project” 24/7 “we’re fighting an existential threat" mindset; that’s a powerful and hard-to-change institutional culture.
>
> "Get the job done, never mind the paperwork!"

Or, perhaps, a more macabre version of the Y2k Attitude:

"Yeah, in 40 years these things will need to be refurbished... but,
what's the odds of them remaining unused that long? And if they get
used, then nobody is going to care about documentation. If we do
manage to avoid launching nuclear bombs for 40 years, it'll be the
year 2000-something, and we'll all have robots to do all our work, and
there will be no economic reason for war. Or else they'll be using
beam cannons or Q-Bombs or something launched from space ships."