The following statement is attributable to Charles McMillan, Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Beloved at Los Alamos for decades, no one has better understood and supported the essential and enduring national security mission of Los Alamos better than Senator Pete Domenici. His commitment and determination to ensuring a strong Laboratory into the future is evidenced by his unwavering support for bringing cutting-edge supercomputing facilities to the Laboratory and ensuring the Laboratory possessed unsurpassed technical capabilities to counter threats to this country from abroad. Senator Domenici was also a passionate believer in the benefits of Big Science to our society, referring to our national laboratories as “crown jewels.” He was instrumental in making use of our supercomputing for projects beyond national security, such as mapping the human genome.”