NNSA needs massively more powerful computers to model modern nuclear weapons effects, report says

Understanding the cradle-to-grave requirements of modern nuclear weapons will require significantly more powerful computing capacity than the U.S. nuclear enterprise plans to develop, the National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday.
The National Nuclear Security…

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