The Organization and Management of the Nuclear Weapons Program; IDA Paper P-3306

Beschreibung

Various paginations (approximately 110 pages) . Tables. Figures. Glossary. The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is an American non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) - the Systems and Analyses Center (SAC), the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI), and the Center for Communications and Computing (C&C) - to assist the United States government in addressing national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise. Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing. Because no new nuclear weapons have been developed by the United States since 1992, even its youngest weapons are at least 26 years old (as of 2019). Since the United States has also not tested nuclear weapons since 1992, this leaves the task of its stockpile maintenance resting on the use of simulations (using non-nuclear explosives tests and supercomputers, among other methods) and applications of scientific knowledge about physics and chemistry to the specific problems of weapons aging (the latter method is what is meant when various agencies refer to their work as "science-based"). It also involves the manufacture of additional plutonium "pits" to replace ones of unknown quality, and finding other methods to increase the lifespan of existing warheads and maintain a confident nuclear deterrent.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Organization and Management of the Nuclear Weapons Program; IDA Paper P-3306

Verlag

Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Einband

Spiral bound

Auflage

Presumed First Edition, First printing.

Zustand

Very good

Verkäuferkataloge

• Nuclear Weapons