I grew up in Los Alamos, the son of two kids who grew up in Los Alamos, who used to go to Christmas parties at Carson Mark's house, with Norris Bradbury, Richard Feynman, occasionally Edward Teller and Stephen Hawking in attendance, and I have never before heard that term. My mother moved to Los Alamos in 1946. My father made his way there about 1947. Los Alamos was known by then but the guard towers are still up. They stopped checking IDs in '79 or so but started checking them again the last couple times I went back ('08, '11). Most towns had police; we had police, Pro Force (DOE contractors with machine guns), SWAT and Delta. During the Reagan era the guard towers regained 20mm anti-tank guns. On the plus side, I knew more Russians than the average middle American in the '90s.
Damn guys, this was good stuff. Education is always political in a very personal sense. I have a good friend that has family in Syria. His extended family in Damascus is currently hostage to Al Bassad's regime of soldiers that were indoctrinated as wards of Syyria that now do its bidding unquestionably. In fact, soldiers that might defect are shot on the spot by comrades. As a result, they are willing to do very horrific things to spare themselves and their families. This is the worst outcome of education. Is it time then that we, in the states, extend "All men are created equal..." and include some sort of guarantee toward an unfettered education in reasoning and logic?