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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by skorgu on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:58PM (#6512325)
NIF is explicitly and publicly a weapons research facility; it's right there on their website[0]. If they happen to do some useful scientific or commercial work then yay but it's a nice byproduct.

[0] https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by pjlegato on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:12PM (#6512392)
Actually, the site you linked lists 3 goals. Weapons research is only one of them. The other two are commercial and scientific research. Those are not mere byproducts, but explicit goals of the facility.
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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by jacquesm on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @02:52AM (#6513414)
They're fig leaves.
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