Los Alamos and information

The Secrecy News blog of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy reports that Los Alamos National Laboratory is no longer allowing researchers to access archival records because the lab has been privatized: it's now being operated by a private contractor named Los Alamos National Security that doesn't have a policy allowing researchers in. A graduate student at Harvard studying the history of nuclear secrecy policy was denied access to the archives and told to pursue his research through the FOIA. But scholars say this is a cumbersome method and doesn't allow browsing archival records.