Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility completes plutonium experiment

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently conducted an experiment on weapons-grade plutonium to assess how resilient a nuclear weapon will prove when it comes up against an adversary’s missile defenses.
The experiment was conducted at the lab’s National…

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Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility completes plutonium experiment

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