A bunch of stuff over at the place where I get paid on Energy Secretary Steve Chu’s visit to New Mexico this week. The bottom line: nuclear weapons remain important, lots of other missions for the labs, happy talk, no specifics.

• the bottom line (start here if you want to just skip to the meat, ignoring vegetables)
• The key points of Chu’s talk, blog version
• Some more odds and ends from Chu’s talk, blog version
• The full newspaper treatment, which you might have to pay to read