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Summer 2021

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IN THIS ISSUE

Abstracts
The state of the nuclear stockpile
For more than 25 years, Laboratory directors have penned an annual assessment letter.Read Nowabout the article: The state of the nuclear stockpile
The spinning image
The Lab’s Centrifuge Test Facility adds a key capability.Read Nowabout the article: The spinning image
Nature's storage system
By translating massive quantities of digital data into DNA language, information can be stored indefinitely.Read Nowabout the article: Nature's storage system
Uncovering big data trends
A new type of artificial intelligence eliminates human bias, allowing the technology to “see” previously unobserved information.Read Nowabout the article: Uncovering big data trends
The future of trucking is hydrogen
A new Los Alamos project could soon bring clean-energy semi-trucks to a highway near you.Read Nowabout the article: The future of trucking is hydrogen
Physicist on loan
Los Alamos scientist Shirish Chitanvis had set foot in many a classroom, but never as a professor. That changed during the last few years of his career.Read Nowabout the article: Physicist on loan
Is technology replacing pilots?
Three Air Force pilots discuss the pros and cons of computers in the cockpit.Read Nowabout the article: Is technology replacing pilots?
Top guns
The Laboratory’s Air Force Fellows reflect on their time at Los Alamos.Read Nowabout the article: Top guns
Remembering Krik Krikorian
The late analyst was part of the Lab’s first intelligence unit.Read Nowabout the article: Remembering Krik Krikorian
Old-fashioned intelligence gathering
Before portable computers, detailed satellite photos, and high-tech gadgetry, collecting information often involved brave young soldiers with better-than-average memories.Read Nowabout the article: Old-fashioned intelligence gathering
Spies among us
The Office of Counterintelligence works to detect and deter espionage at Los Alamos.Read Nowabout the article: Spies among us
The fourth atomic spy
Some say recently discovered Oscar Seborer was the most-damaging spy. Laboratory documents suggest otherwise.Read Nowabout the article: The fourth atomic spy
Features
Envisioning the W93
What will the Navy’s nuclear deterrent look like in the 2030s? A multi-phase study aims to find out.Read Nowabout the article: Envisioning the W93
Nuclear weapons life cycle
Read Nowabout the article: Nuclear weapons life cycle
What's on board now?
The Navy’s current warheads have been updated over the years.Read Nowabout the article: What's on board now?
Trinity revisited
Deep analysis of the first atomic blast sheds new light on the origins of nuclear science.Read Nowabout the article: Trinity revisited
Wargames
Simulating wartime decisions helps prepare for the real thing.Read Nowabout the article: Wargames
The archives of the future
Artificial intelligence is the solution to digitizing, cataloging, and searching nearly 80 years’ worth of classified materials at Los Alamos National Laboratory.Read Nowabout the article: The archives of the future
Analysis
Is your boss a black bear?
To answer this question (and determine if you should change your telework status to permanent), consider some problems and processes in intelligence analysis.Read Nowabout the article: Is your boss a black bear?
Being Essential
Not his first rodeo
Rich Taylor, director of the Nuclear Weapons Cyber Assurance Lab at Los Alamos, is the president of the New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association.Read Nowabout the article: Not his first rodeo
A stamp of approval
Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu is recalled fondly by her son, a Los Alamos physicist.Read Nowabout the article: A stamp of approval