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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
...After the merger, it was very much no longer the "playground" into which I hired, with no one worrying about, nor accountable, for cost. After the merger, that was the only thing that mattered.
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Not that we're very cost focused even today - the lore here is that, Oppenheimer's succeeding director, Norris Bradbury would go to congress every year and basically say "this is what we did last year, if you give us more we'll do this stuff too" and he backed it up every year. That was about the level of fed program management for us in Los Alamos early in the cold war.
We did awesome stuff! Crazy things. Stupid things. Nucular rockets!
Now we do primavera schedules and powerpoint. Not exactly progress in my mind...