California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has voiced his support for UC's continued management of Los Alamos and Livermore, but Ian Hoffman asks the right question:

In a bit of a coup for the university, the governors of both New Mexico and California now have endorsed UC's partnership with Bechtel National and others to bid for management of the birthplace of the bomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

What's unclear is what the backing from Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Democrat Bill Richardson is worth.
Posted by John Fleck at August 20, 2005 01:10 PM