Troy Wade Honored With Third Annual Johnny Foster Award

Longtime weapons complex official Troy Wade was awarded yesterday with the third annual Johnny Foster Award by ExchangeMonitor Publications and Forums. Wade served more than 50 years in the nation’s nuclear weapons programs in a variety of roles, from his time as a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nuclear weapons explosives expert at the Nevada Test Site in the early 1960s to his tenure as the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs. After his retirement from DOE, he helped establish the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas and has been the chair of the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation since 1998. Retired Air Force Gen. Larry Welch, the former commander of Strategic Air Command and former Air Force Chief of Staff, earned the award a year ago. Foster, the former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director, was the inaugural winner of the award in 2013.