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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
National Security Research Center âEdith Warnerâ article:
https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/the-vault/the-vault-2022/edith-warner/
For more Los Alamos stories, visit discover.lanl.gov
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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Previous title: Nevada series episode 3: Subcritical testing at the Nevada National Security Site
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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Previous title: Nevada series episode 2: The testing moratorium and the pivot to stockpile stewardship
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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Previous title: Nevada series episode 1: Historical nuclear testing
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
Links to National Security Science articles, "Do look up" and "Looking toward an uncertain future."
https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-science/2022-summer/do-look-up
https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-science/2022-summer/looking-toward-an-uncertain-future
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Previous title: âDonât Look upâ movie and Los Alamosâ involvement with planetary defense science
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
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Previous title: Climate security = national security
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Links:
âLAMPF Accelerator Reaches Full Energy,â The Atom, July-August 1972
âLAMPF: a dream and a gamble,â Los Alamos Science, winter-spring 1983
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Previous title: The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center turns 50!
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit
discover.lanl.gov
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Previous title: Cosmic custodians: Los Alamos Scientists make sure nuclear detonation detection equipment can survive space.
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
For more Los Alamos stories, visit discover.lanl.gov.
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Previous title: Launching Partnerships: Behind the scenes of a rocket launch
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Sciencemagazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
ReadNational Security Sciencemagazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
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Podcast artwork: 46680597© Elenadesigner | Dreamstime.com
Previous title: Holiday special featuring a 1964 holiday poem from "The Atom"
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Itâs been long known that Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Greenglass committed espionage at Project Yâthe Los Alamos branch of the Manhattan Projectâduring World War II. Each worked at the secret laboratory charged with creating the worldâs first atomic bombs, each stole classified weapons information, and each shared it with the Soviet Union. Just recently though, in September 2019, historians confirmed a fourth wartime spy: Oscar Seborer.
In this episode of the National Security Science podcast, National Security Science writer Weston Phippen talks to Los Alamos National Laboratory senior historian Alan Carr about Seborerâs time at Los Alamos and the spyâs possible contributions to the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
For more on Seborer at Los Alamos, make sure to read this article in the summer 2021 issue of National Security Science magazine.
The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
Illustration for this episode's artwork: Los Alamos National Laboratory/Brenda Fleming
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Previous title: The fourth atomic spy
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons programsâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
In this episode of the National Security Science podcast, on the 76th anniversary of the Trinity test, we examine the test from two angles: from 1945, when the test occurred, and from 2021, when a group of Los Alamos employees traveled to the Trinity site to tour ground zero and the surrounding area.
Previous title: The Trinity Test: Then & Now
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons programsâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
Itâs March, Womenâs History Month. And for this podcast, we bring you the story of Jane Hall. Jane Hall came to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in 1945. She had an incredible career as a nuclear physicist and as a manager. In 1955, she became the Labâs first female assistant director, working closely with Director Norris Bradbury. In 1966, Jane was the first woman appointed to the General Advisory Committee if the Atomic Energy Commission, which offered guidance to top policy makers about scientific and technical matters relating to atomic energy.
Previous title: Jane Hall: Queen of the hill
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
In this episode, siblings Joel and Candace Vargas siblings sing about some of the Laboratory's earliest computers. Read more about the Vargas siblings in âMath and music run in this familyâ in the winter 2020 issue of the National Security Science magazine. Read âComputing on the Mesaâ for a comprehensive history of computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The bulk of this podcast features mathematician Mary Tsingou (now Mary Tsingou Menzel). In the 1950s, Tsingou programmed the MANIAC computer to solve a problem that Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stan Ulam came up withâtheir famous vibrating string experiment. She went on to become a coding expert, working on many Los Alamos projects during her accomplished 30-year career. Today, she and her husband still live in Los Alamos, and in May of 2020, she talked with NSS writer Virginia Grant about her work at the Laboratory. Read the full story, âWe thank Miss Mary Tsingouâ in the winter 2020 issue of the National Security Science magazine.
Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
Photo for this episode's artwork: Dreamstime ID 60149534 Romolo Tavini
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Previous title: Holiday special featuring Mary Tsingou
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
In this episode, Naval officer-turned-Laboratory employee Mark Levin recounts his time on board the USS Nebraska. "I order one prolonged blast on the shipâs whistle and we are underway, embarking on a 10-week strategic deterrence mission. Carrying 24 Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) armed with Los Alamosâdesigned nuclear warheads, the Nebraska will prowl the depths of the ocean, its exact location unknown to everyone but its crew. Our mission is to remain hidden at sea with our SLBMs, so as to deter a nuclear attack on the United States by demonstrating to other countries that the United States has an assured second-strike capabilityâa survivable system for carrying out a retaliatory nuclear attack."
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
Photo for this episode's artwork: U.S. Department of Defense
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Previous title: Salt Life: Go on patrol with an Ohio-class submarine that's ready to launch nuclear warheads at a momentâs notice.
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
In the summer of 2018, Major Nicholas Edwards was the weapons officer for 576th Flight Test Squadron, the sole group charged with test launching the Minuteman III, the militaryâs only ground-based nuclear ICBM. These occasional tests, called glory trips, are always done at Vandenberg Air Force Base and are the most exhilarating moments in any missileerâs career.
A glory trip is similar in every way to a real nuclear missile launch, except that the missileâs Los Alamosâdesigned W78 warhead has been replaced with a joint test assembly (JTA)âalso designed and built by the Labâthat replicates a W78 in every way except that itâs filled with sensors, not a nuclear device. The JTA endures the freezing limits of outer space as it exits the atmosphere atop the missile, and after it has dislodged from the ICBM, it endures the molten heat of fall to Earth like a meteor, all the while relaying important flight information to the control center at Vandenberg.
Now that the Minuteman III system is 50 years old, nearing the end of its shelf life, these tests have become more important than ever. In fact, the government planned to retire the system in 2020, but Congress extended its service for another 10 years, at which point a replacement system will be deployed. So until then, the United States randomly picks four Minuteman III missiles annually to test from its stockpile, then compiles the data to share with the military and the Lab. âThese glory trips give us a lot of information we canât get otherwise, and in that way, theyâre very useful,â says Jay Pepin, the W78 Systems Engineering group leader at Los Alamos.
Thereâs also the national defense angle. âNot only do these tests warn us if there are any issues that need to be addressed with the weapon,â says retired Air Force Colonel Michael Port, a former missileer whoâs now director of the Labâs Office of Nuclear and Military Affairs, âthey also show our adversaries that weâre still quite capable of using our Minuteman III system, despite its age.â
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
Photo for this episode's artwork: U.S. Air Force/Thomas Barley
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Previous title: A moment of glory: testing the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile
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The National Security Science podcast is a spin-off of National Security Science magazine at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We bring you stories from the Labâs Weapons Programâstories that show how innovative science and engineering are the key to keeping America safe. Or, as we like to say, better science equals better security.
In this episode, Los Alamos senior Air Force Fellow and B-2 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Steeves reads âA wealth of stealth,â a feature article that appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of the magazine. Steeves shares what itâs like to fly the B-2, a 31-year-old, 160,000-pound nuclear-capable bomber. B-2s are the only U.S. bombers currently capable of dropping a nuclear weapon, and most of the nuclear weapons a B-2 can carry were designed and are maintained at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Read National Security Science magazine online here. Request a print copy or provide feedback by emailing [email protected].
Photo for this episode's artwork: U.S. Air Force/Thomas Barley
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Previous title: A wealth of stealth: An inside perspective on flying the B-2 Spirit bomber