The State - News from Aug. 25, 1989

An angry John Nuckolls, director of Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratory, announced a “zero-tolerance” policy regarding illicit drugs after small amounts of cocaine and other drugs were stolen from a locked safe. The drugs were used to train the lab’s drug-sniffing dog. Members of the security force are thought to be among the few people at the laboratory who had the safe’s combination. Nuckolls vowed to institute random drug testing for the security force. Drug use at the lab was the focus of a congressional investigation last year. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of two government labs responsible for conducting research into nuclear weapons design.