Stockpile Stewardship

Stockpile Stewardship Tools Today ‘Far Outstrip’ What Creators Thought Possible, LLNL Director Says

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Todays’ computing, modeling and simulation tools, plus the National Ignition Facility that unlocks physics “not accessible in the laboratory,” have given nuclear-weapon stewards capabilities unimaginable almost 30 years ago, when the U.S. ceased explosive…

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