Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons designers»

This is the stuff nuclear weapons designers deal with, as well as with inertial confinement fusion.

A more complete phase diagram is immensely important to nuclear weapons designers who need to not only understand if a nuclear weapon will perform as designed, but also how it will be affected by aging.

Their enthusiasm stems from an inescapable truth: now the old enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union has collapsed, nuclear weapons designers and those employed on projects for the Strategic Defense Initiative are facing redundancy unless they can find a new adversary on which to focus.

There is no public debate on the future of Britain's nuclear weapons designers.

Now that the global nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva are getting down to serious business and a ban could be achieved by March 1995, it looks increasingly likely that Britain's nuclear weapons designers will never be able to test their weapons again.

NIF is designed to achieve nuclear fusion by crushing capsules of hydrogen fuel with immensely energetic lasers, both for energy research and to help nuclear weapons designers simulate explosions.

What is clear is that, in less than a decade, all the weapons in the American nuclear arsenal will have outlived their expected lifetimes, and the last American nuclear weapons designer with test experience will have retired from the laboratory.

Not exact matches

It was the nuclear explosions which «proved» a weapons designer's worth.

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

McMillan, a nuclear physicist and weapons designer with government - funded compensation exceeding a million dollars a year, responded that he had believed the problems could be solved while that lab kept operating.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

«Following the 1994 Shoemaker - Levy 9 comet impacts with Jupiter, Edward Teller proposed to a collective of U.S. and Russian ex-Cold War weapons designers in a 1995 planetary defense workshop meeting at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that they collaborate to design a 1 gigaton nuclear explosive device, which would be equivalent to the kinetic energy of a 1 km diameter asteroid.