Energy and Technology Review, January--February 1992

This issue of Energy and Technology Review addresses nuclear weapon research after the Cold War. Although the nuclear deterrent is entering a state of transition. US nuclear forces must continue to meet their national security role and the national weapons laboratories must continue to fulfill their responsibility for the stockpile. At LLNL, we are working to devise ways to modernize the weapons in the stockpile with enhanced safety and security features and to design new, intrinsically safe weapons while, at the same time, reducing the environmental impact associated with the fabrication and manufacture of weapon components. We are also continuing our activities in treaty verification, arms control, and nonproliferation. If it clear that these challenges will require all the technical expertise that we have developed in LLNL's 40 years of existence. The titles of the seven articles in this review are: (1) Nuclear Weapon Reductions: START and Beyond; (2) Future Directions for the Nuclear Weapons Program at LLNL; (3) Nuclear Weapons Safety; (4) An Analysis of Pit Production Facilities for the Future Nuclear Weapons Complex; (5) Site 300 Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention Program; (6) Advances in Treaty Verification Technology; and (7) Controlling the Spread of Nuclear Weapons.