Maintaining a nuclear deterrent under the test ban treaty

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5405, 1999, Pages 1119-1120

  Drell, Sidney ^a   Jeanloz, Raymond ^b   Peurifoy, Bob ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR SAFETY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033582708     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5405.1119     Document Type: Short Survey

References (7)

1. The CTBT is a true zero-yield treaty, banning all explosions producing any self-sustaining nuclear fission reactions.
2. The weapon design laboratories are the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories.
3. The weapon production plants are Pantex (Amarillo, TX), AlliedSignal (Kansas City, MO), the Savannah River Site (Savannah River, SC), and Y-12 (Oak Ridge, TN).
4. Experiments will continue on the many nonnuclear components of the nuclear weapon systems.
5. These studies include JASON reports JSR-94-345 ("Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship"); JSR-95-320 ("Nuclear Testing") and its unclassified summary in the Congressional Record-Senate: S-11368 (4 August 1995); JSR-97-300 ("Subcritical Experiments"); JSR-97-320 ("Signatures of Aging"); and JSR-98-320 ("Signatures of Aging Revisited"), published by Mitre Corp., McLean, VA. In addition, S.D. chairs and R.J. and B.P. serve on the University of California's committee overseeing national security programs at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
6. That is, configurations and amounts sufficiently small that the experiment remains truly zero yield.
7. Work of S. Conradson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) carried out at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.