Los Alamos National Laboratory has played a role in some of the most transformational discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 1943, scientists gathered on remote mesa tops in New Mexico for a secret project that would help end World War II. Our primary mission since then has been to care for the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons.
But this primary mission leads to a wealth of advances in science and technol...
Los Alamos National Laboratory has played a role in some of the most transformational discoveries of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 1943, scientists gathered on remote mesa tops in New Mexico for a secret project that would help end World War II. Our primary mission since then has been to care for the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons.
But this primary mission leads to a wealth of advances in science and technology.
Assurance without testing
In 1992, the United States voluntarily stopped full-scale testing of nuclear weapons. That means we must use other methods to assure that the U.S. stockpile is safe, reliable, and effective.
To use an analogy, it’s like assuring that a 1965 classic sports car will start—without being able to put gas in the engine. Each year, its parts get older; they may corrode or get brittle. Mechanics repair or refurbish some parts, and they may take samples or test other parts. They may even use computers to simulate what a running engine looks like, but they cannot start the engine.
Now make that many times more complex.
Assuring America’s nuclear stockpile without full-scale testing requires a tremendous amount of science, technology, computational horsepower, and analytical tools.
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