Adrian ChoAn unusual lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, one of the United States’s three nuclear weapons labs.
Peter Williams, a 50-year-old physicist, worked at Livermore from January 2016 until May 2017, when he says he was fired in retaliation for complaining that his superiors were mishandling a computer program that simulates the detonation of high explosives, undermining their ability to predict how a particular nuclear weapon would perform if used.
Williams, who now works at a private research lab, has sued Livermore and seven individuals for reinstatement and $600,000 in damages.Researchers familiar with the labs say Williams’s allegations should be taken seriously. “If.