Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a U.S. national laboratory founded in 1952 to advance nuclear weapons research and related science and technology.

Nuclear weapons design: The engineering and physics of designing nuclear weapons and predicting their performance. The laboratory was established to create and improve nuclear weapon designs.
Manhattan Project: The U.S.-led wartime program that developed the first nuclear weapons. Livermore inherited the Manhattan Project's weapons mission and scientific infrastructure.
Nuclear fusion energy: Energy produced by fusing light atomic nuclei, potentially providing low-carbon power. Fusion research at Livermore informs efforts to turn laboratory ignition into usable energy.
United States nuclear weapons program: The national effort to develop, deploy, maintain, and oversee U.S. nuclear weapons. Livermore is one of the principal institutions that designs and sustains the arsenal.
Stockpile stewardship: A U.S. program that maintains nuclear weapons without full-scale explosive testing. Livermore uses experiments and simulations to assess the reliability of existing weapons.
University of California: A public university system in California that managed major U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories. The university established and managed Livermore after the federal government requested a second weapons laboratory.
Climate modeling: The simulation of climate systems to understand past change and project future conditions. Livermore develops and runs climate models using its scientific computing capabilities.
Nuclear arms race: The competitive accumulation of nuclear weapons, especially by the United States and Soviet Union. Livermore's founding expanded U.S. capacity during the Cold War arms competition.
National Ignition Facility: A laser research facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that studies inertial confinement fusion. Its high-energy laser experiments investigate fusion and conditions relevant to weapons physics.
Ernest Lawrence: An American physicist who invented the cyclotron and helped establish major nuclear research institutions. He advocated creating the laboratory and lent it the name of his Berkeley laboratory.

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