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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 | Perspectives on the Laboratory: Milestones in the History of Los Alamos National Laboratory
| 212 kB | Taking on the Future: Harold Agnew and the Los Alamos scientists discuss the potential of the Laboratory
| 535 kB | What is the Future of Los Alamos?
Hans A. Bethe | 28 kB | The Laboratory of the Atomic Age
Edward Teller | 94 kB | Bombs Away?
Jack Howard | 28 kB | The Stewardship of Nuclear Weapons
| 196 kB | Redefining the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program and the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
John D. Immele, Philip D. Goldstone | 74 kB | Key Issues Framing Today’s Decisions
| 9 kB | An Expanding Role for AGEX: Above-Ground Experiments for Nuclear Weapons Physics
Philip D. Goldstone | 574 kB | AGEX I — The Explosives Regime of Weapons Physics
Timothy R. Neal | 309 kB | Line-imaging Laser Interferometers for Measuring Velocities
Willard F. Hemsing | 113 kB | AGEX II — The High-Energy-Density Regime of Weapons Physics
Stephen M. Younger | 197 kB | Déjà Vu All Over Again
Houston T. Hawkins | 16 kB | Proliferation Challenges in Perspective
Joseph F. Pilat | 61 kB | New Technologies in Support of Nonproliferation
| 16 kB | Russian-American Collaborations: The Transition to Peacetime Work
Stephen M. Younger | 167 kB | Interview with Alexander Ivanovich Pavlovskii
| 192 kB | Science and Innovation at Los Alamos
| 292 kB | Probing the Structure of Matter: A History of Accelerators at Los Alamos
Richard A. Reichelt | 634 kB | Medium-Energy Physics at LAMPF
Mikkel B. Johnson | 99 kB | Accelerator-based conversion of Surplus Plutonium
| 17 kB | Neutrons in Our Future: A Proposed High-Flux Spallation Neutron Source
Roger Pynn | 109 kB | Malone Refrigeration: An Old Solution to a New Problem
Gregory W. Swift | 251 kB | CFCs and Cooling Equipment: The Size of the Problem
| 10 kB | John Malone and the Invention of Liquid-based Engines
| 10 kB | Thermoacoustic Engines and Refrigerators
| 33 kB | Mixing and Chaotic Microstructures
Yuefan Deng, James Glimm, David H. Sharp | 242 kB | Novel Electronic Materials: The MX Family
Alan R. Bishop, Basil I. Swanson | 198 kB | Unification of Nature’s Fundamental Forces: A Continuing Search
Geoffrey B. West, Frederick M. Cooper, Emil Mottola, Michael P. Mattis | 326 kB | Testing the Standard Model of Particle Interactions Using State-of-the-Art Supercomputers
Rajan Gupta | 129 kB | Parity Violation in Nuclear Physics: Signature of the Weak Force
Gerald T. Garvey, Susan J. Seestrom | 136 kB | Molecular Wires for Ultrafast Circuits
Antonio Redondo | 217 kB | Experimental Structural Biology
Jill Trewhella | 181 kB | Crystals and Ultrasound: Old-fashioned Materials Science
Zachary Fisk, Albert Migliori | 191 kB | Machines That Learn: Adaptive Computation with Artificial Neural Networks
Roger D. Jones | 189 kB | Climate, the Ocean, and Parallel Computing
Robert C. Malone, Richard D. Smith, John K. Dukowicz | 409 kB | New Numerical Methods for Ocean Modeling on Parallel Computers
| 16 kB | Superconductivity: Physics, Electrical Cables, and Industry
James L. Smith | 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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