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longship

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2. The previous two Energy Secretaries were PhDs in physics!!

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:23 PM

Jan 2017

One of them was a fucking Nobel Laureate in physics!!!!

Now we see how Drumpf feels about such things.

The Energy Department oversees all of the nuclear weapons and many national laboratories where such things are developed, plus where much other pure research happens. This includes places like Fermilab, the second largest particle physics lab on the planet. (Used to be the largest until the USA gave up on such endeavors.)

I weep for my country!

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