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NNSA delivers the U.S. nuclear stockpile, strengthens nonproliferation, powers a global naval fleet & advances transformative tech.
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https://www.energy.gov/nnsa 17-06-2009 22:45:15
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Last week, #NNSA experts jointly organized a regional Southeast Asia seminar in Singapore on challenges associated with strategic trade management in free trade zones. Partners included Department of State, World Customs Organization, EU P2P, and Singapore Customs.
#DidYouKnow that #NNSA works to make the world a safer place by eliminating excess weapons-usable nuclear material like highly enriched uranium and plutonium? #nonproliferation energy.gov/nnsa/missions/…
#OnThisDay in 1939: Frédéric Joliot-Curie and his team published their work on the secondary neutrons released in #fission . It demonstrated that a nuclear chain reaction was possible. Nuclear Museum
In a collaboration that helps advance its national security and basic science missions, Los Alamos National Laboratory and its private partners have come together on the design and installation of Venado, the Lab’s newest supercomputer. discover.lanl.gov/news/0415-vena…
J. Robert Oppenheimer, known as father of the #AtomicBomb , was born #OnThisDay in 1902. A physicist, he led Los Alamos National Laboratory during the #ManhattanProject . After witnessing the Trinity blast, he thought: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
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Born #OnThisDay in 1912: #ManhattanProject contributor, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, UC Berkeley Chancellor, and The Nobel Prize in #Chemistry winner Glenn Seaborg. He helped discover 10 elements and seaborgium is named for him. Berkeley Lab www2.lbl.gov/Publications/S…
#DidYouKnow that in order to fulfill its #ManhattanProject mission of enriching uranium for the atomic bomb, Y-12 NSC had to borrow 14,700 TONS of silver from the Treasury Department?
We were proud to host expert Mariana Budjeryn of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, who shared her perspective with #NNSA staff on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the global nuclear order.
State ISN Bureau thanks Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for implementing #SteppeLotus2024 and @Energy NNSA & National Security Division, U.S. Dept of Justice for their support. Making the world safer by combatting #WMDTerrorism . See more: mn.usembassy.gov/pr-041524/. (2/2)
This week in Ulaanbaatar, State ISN Bureau, MFA Mongolia, & MFA Vietnam Official co-hosted an ASEAN Regional Forum workshop with 16 countries to strengthen legal frameworks for CBRN Terrorism. #SteppeLotus2024 was supported by United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism & UN Office on Drugs & Crime through funding from the EU. (1/2)