Moniz was Department of Energy undersecretary from 1997 to January 2001, focusing on nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship.
This is all part of the high-tech nuclear stockpile stewardship program, which ensures high confidence in U.S. nuclear weapons.
The technical achievements of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, while significant, are nonetheless at the end of the day a simulation.
The science-based stockpile stewardship program is still unproven and underfunded despite the best efforts of our scientists and nuclear work force.
But the fact that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty would preclude essential calibration testing for the Stockpile Stewardship Program should be sufficient grounds for rejection of this accord.
Today, the directors of our nuclear laboratories tell us they have a deeper understanding of our arsenal from Stockpile Stewardship than they ever had when testing was commonplace.
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.
We have allowed a steady decline in investment in the science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program that promised to assure the safety, effectiveness and reliability of our nuclear weapons in the absence of below-ground tests.
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.
Dr. Barker explained the assumptions behind the Clinton Administration's current Stockpile Stewardship Management Program (SSMP) and its adequacy as an alternative to nuclear testing in assuring the future safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
In a prime example of Orwellian doublespeak, this program is called "science- based stockpile stewardship" even though it is less scientific since it precludes the most prolific source of empirical data on nuclear weapons, namely, nuclear tests.
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.
First of all we developed something called the Stockpile Stewardship Program, under which computers would simulate testing and hopefully enable annual certification of the stockpile, and eventually, the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) to actually supplant existing warheads, the first comprehensive, soup-to-nuts redesign of a nuclear weapon since before the end of the Cold War.
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.
Sequoia is dedicated to NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, a joint effort from LLNL, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
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Additionally, it would significantly increase stewardship and management costs and divert key resources from our critical stockpile sustainment efforts and delay completion of programs necessary to support the long-term safety, security, and reliability of our nuclear deterrent.
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