Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the other in Livermore, California. Its primary mission is to develop, engineer, and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. Its main secured campus is ~4.4 square miles (11 km2) and is located on Kirtland Air Force Base.

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United States - Department of Energy - National laboratory - Albuquerque - New Mexico - Livermore - California - Nuclear weapon - Kirtland Air Force Base

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Sandia's primary mission is to implement the nation's nuclear weapon policies through research, development, and testing related to nuclear weapons. This includes maintaining the reliability and surety of nuclear weapon systems, performing research and development in arms control and nonproliferation technologies, and contributing solutions to the problem of hazardous wastes resulting from the nuclear weapons program. Other missions include research and development in energy and environmental programs, as well as the surety of critical national infrastructures. However, Sandia is home to many different kinds of research including psychology such as human factors and cognitive science initiatives which may fall near the tree of the DARPA augcog program. Sandia also hosts ASCI Red, which is still one of the world's fastest supercomputers (and is preparing to host ASCI Thor's Hammer).

Related Topics:
Nuclear weapon - Arms control - Nonproliferation - Psychology - Human factors - Cognitive science - DARPA - Augcog - ASCI Red - Supercomputer - ASCI Thor's Hammer

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