Stockpile Stewardship: How We Ensure the Nuclear Deterrent Without Testing

Multimedia · Thu Sep 04 04:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1214320

In the 1990s, the U.S. nuclear weapons program shifted emphasis from developing new designs to dismantling thousands of existing weapons and maintaining a much smaller enduring stockpile. The United States ceased underground nuclear testing, and the Department of Energy created the Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the safety, security, and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full-scale testing. This video gives a behind the scenes look at a set of unique capabilities at Lawrence Livermore that are indispensable to the Stockpile Stewardship Program: high performance computing, the Superblock category II nuclear facility, the JASPER a two stage gas gun, the High Explosive Applications Facility (HEAF), the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and the Site 300 contained firing facility.

• Research Organization: LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1214320
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
NUCLEAR
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
STOCKPILE
STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM