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Los Alamos Science No. 21, 1993
The Laboratory's 50th Anniversary
| In 1993, LANL's 50th anniversary, the Cold War was over, and the Laboratory was in the midst of changing its identity. This volume captures the mood of the times through a candid roundtable among LANL scientists and former Director Harold Agnew. Hans Bethe and Edward Teller offer separate visions of the Laboratory's future, and feature stories examine the new "stewardship" of the nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing, the threat of nuclear proliferation, and the new peacetime collaborations between former rivals in Russian and American nuclear weapons laboratories. Ten short articles show the breadth of research at LANL ranging from studies of nature's fundamental forces to superconducting wires for efficient delivery of electric power. This volume illustrates the evolving role of national laboratories in national security, energy security, and big science. |
| Table of Contents | PDF Size | Cover and Contents
| 493 kB | Taking on the Future: Harold Agnew and the Los Alamos scientists discuss the potential of the Laboratory
| 212 kB | What is the Future of Los Alamos?
Hans A. Bethe | 535 kB | The Laboratory of the Atomic Age
Edward Teller | 28 kB | Bombs Away?
Jack Howard | 94 kB | The Stewardship of Nuclear Weapons
| 28 kB | Redefining the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program and the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
John D. Immele, Philip D. Goldstone | 196 kB | Key Issues Framing Today’s Decisions
| 74 kB | An Expanding Role for AGEX: Above-Ground Experiments for Nuclear Weapons Physics
Philip D. Goldstone | 9 kB | AGEX I — The Explosives Regime of Weapons Physics
Timothy R. Neal | 574 kB | Line-imaging Laser Interferometers for Measuring Velocities
Willard F. Hemsing | 309 kB | AGEX II — The High-Energy-Density Regime of Weapons Physics
Stephen M. Younger | 113 kB | Déjà Vu All Over Again
Houston T. Hawkins | 197 kB | Proliferation Challenges in Perspective
Joseph F. Pilat | 16 kB | New Technologies in Support of Nonproliferation
| 61 kB | Russian-American Collaborations: The Transition to Peacetime Work
Stephen M. Younger | 16 kB | Interview with Alexander Ivanovich Pavlovskii
| 167 kB | Science and Innovation at Los Alamos
| 192 kB | Probing the Structure of Matter: A History of Accelerators at Los Alamos
Richard A. Reichelt | 292 kB | Medium-Energy Physics at LAMPF
Mikkel B. Johnson | 634 kB | Accelerator-based conversion of Surplus Plutonium
| 99 kB | Neutrons in Our Future: A Proposed High-Flux Spallation Neutron Source
Roger Pynn | 17 kB | Malone Refrigeration: An Old Solution to a New Problem
Gregory W. Swift | 109 kB | CFCs and Cooling Equipment: The Size of the Problem
| 251 kB | John Malone and the Invention of Liquid-based Engines
| 10 kB | Thermoacoustic Engines and Refrigerators
| 10 kB | Mixing and Chaotic Microstructures
Yuefan Deng, James Glimm, David H. Sharp | 33 kB | Novel Electronic Materials: The MX Family
Alan R. Bishop, Basil I. Swanson | 242 kB | Unification of Nature’s Fundamental Forces: A Continuing Search
Geoffrey B. West, Frederick M. Cooper, Emil Mottola, Michael P. Mattis | 198 kB | Testing the Standard Model of Particle Interactions Using State-of-the-Art Supercomputers
Rajan Gupta | 326 kB | Parity Violation in Nuclear Physics: Signature of the Weak Force
Gerald T. Garvey, Susan J. Seestrom | 129 kB | Molecular Wires for Ultrafast Circuits
Antonio Redondo | 136 kB | Experimental Structural Biology
Jill Trewhella | 217 kB | Crystals and Ultrasound: Old-fashioned Materials Science
Zachary Fisk, Albert Migliori | 181 kB | Machines That Learn: Adaptive Computation with Artificial Neural Networks
Roger D. Jones | 191 kB | Climate, the Ocean, and Parallel Computing
Robert C. Malone, Richard D. Smith, John K. Dukowicz | 189 kB | New Numerical Methods for Ocean Modeling on Parallel Computers
| 409 kB | Superconductivity: Physics, Electrical Cables, and Industry
James L. Smith | 16 kB | Science Policy: Past and Future
| 164 kB | Science Policy and the Role of the National Laboratories
Robert W. Seidel | 270 kB | Los Alamos: Beginning the Second Fifty Years
Siegfried S. Hecker | 83 kB |
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