Moniz was Department of Energy undersecretary from 1997 to January 2001, focusing on nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship.
The technical achievements of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, while significant, are nonetheless at the end of the day a simulation.
Under the moratorium, our laboratories have maintained our arsenal through the Stockpile Stewardship Program without underground nuclear testing, using techniques that are as successful as they are cutting edge.
He led a comprehensive review of our nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program, enhanced the science and technology of environmental cleanup, and was the DOE special negotiator for Russia initiatives, focusing on disposal of Soviet-era nuclear materials.
Since 1992, in the place of testing, the United States has relied for "stockpile stewardship" on a host of computer-modeling, other simulation techniques and non-nuclear explosive tests that have provided insights into the performance of an aging arsenal.
His decision to ban all nuclear tests would preclude the U.S. from conducting even extremely low-yield tests (for example, those that produce as little of a blast as the equivalent of four pounds of high explosive) as part of the nuclear stockpile stewardship program.
The Clinton Administration maintains that various experimental devices and techniques being pursued as part of its Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) will be able to replace testing and equip a new generation of scientists with the expertise necessary to sustain the U.S. deterrent for the foreseeable future.
Each has recognized the need for modernization of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, enhanced "stewardship" of the obsolescent weapons that will likely continue to comprise the bulk of the arsenal for years to come and sustained investment in the infrastructure - both human and industrial - needed to perform such tasks.
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