Washington, DC: Panel to Assess Reliability, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. quarto, 30 pages, wraps, footnotes, figures, appendix. Subtitled: FY2001 Report to Congress of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile. This report focussed on a narrow question: is there a technical issue that necessitates a return to nuclear testing? In order to meet the growing technical challenges of stockpile stewardship, the Panel recommended that Presidential guidance be revised to require a balanced and complete assessment of the stockpile, the nuclear weapons complex that supports it, and the alternative options available for sustaining confidence. More

Germantown, MD: TechSource Incorporated, and LMI Government Consulting, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Various paginations (approximately 110 pages). Illustrations (figures and Tables, some with color). Biographical Information on Report Authors. Abbreviations. Ink marks on front cover and page vi. Page 4-3/4-4 creased. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The team was tasked to perform an independent business case analysis of storage consolidation alternatives for NNSA's Pantex plant. Further, the alternatives considered utilizing interim storage at the Savannah River Site,metering the flow of weapons from the Department of Defense to the Department of Energy,, and declaring more pits as excess to expedite closure of Zone 4. The primary mission of the Pantex Plant is the assembly, disassembly, testing, and evaluation of nuclear weapons in support of the NNSA stockpile stewardship program. Pantex also performs research and development in conventional high explosives and serves as an interim storage site for plutonium pits removed from dismantled weapons. More