Draft Agenda: The Honorable Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary; Anna C. Palmisano, Associate Director, Office of Biological and Environmental Research U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Christopher Deeney, Acting Director, Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion and the National Ignition Facility Project National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Monday, December 1, 2008

Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2008. Draft. Folder with visit agenda and some presentation material clipped in. Approximately 40 pages in a red, stiff card folder. This packet includes: Draft Agenda for a half day visit with partial attendees list. Copy of an e-mail that identifies who would attend the working lunch with Secretary Bodman, who would be on the NIF tour, who would attend the NIF Path Forward Briefing, and who would attend the Seismic Simulation Briefing. Then there is a one page sheet on The National Ignition Facility. An article from SciDac Review Fall 2008 on Computational Predictions of Earthquake Ground Motions and the Response of Major Structures (pages 42-53), The last item is a hard copy vugraph presentation entitled Applications of High Performance Seismic Simulations to Enhance Proliferation Detection by David McCallen, Program Director for Nonproliferation at the laboratory. This 18 page presentation was marked Official Use Only with is understood to no longer apply due to the passage of time and the information entering the public domain. This type of official visit material, especially in draft from, is extremely ephemeral and seldom survives past the completion of the planned event. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981. LLNL is self-described as a "premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security." Its principal responsibility is ensuring the safety, security and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons through the application of advanced science, engineering, and technology. The laboratory also applies its special expertise and multidisciplinary capabilities towards preventing the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction, bolstering homeland security, and solving other nationally important problems, including energy and environmental needs, scientific research and outreach, and economic competitiveness.

From its inception, Livermore focused on new weapon design concepts; as a result, its first three nuclear tests were unsuccessful. The lab persevered and its subsequent designs proved increasingly successful. In 1957, the Livermore Lab was selected to develop the warhead for the Navy's Polaris missile. This warhead required numerous innovations to fit a nuclear warhead into the relatively small confines of the missile nosecone. During the Cold War, many Livermore-designed warheads entered service. These were used in missiles ranging in size from the Lance surface-to-surface tactical missile to the megaton-class Spartan antiballistic missile. Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 (Regulus cruise missile; 1955; joint with Los Alamos), W38 (Atlas/Titan ICBM; 1959), B41 (B52 bomb; 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), W48 (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket; 1959), W56 (Minuteman ICBM; 1960), W58 (Polaris SLBM; 1960), W62 (Minuteman ICBM; 1964), W68 (Poseidon SLBM; 1966), W70 (Lance missile; 1969), W71 (Spartan missile; 1968), W79 (8-in. artillery gun; 1975), W82 (155-mm howitzer; 1978), B83 (modern strategic bomb; 1979), and W87 (LGM-118 Peacekeeper/MX ICBM; 1982). The W87 and the B83 are the only LLNL designs still in the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

The Lab's work in global security aims to reduce and mitigate the dangers posed by the spread or use of weapons of mass destruction and by threats to energy and environmental security. Livermore has been working on global security and homeland security for decades, predating both the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. LLNL staff have been heavily involved in the cooperative nonproliferation programs with Russia to secure at-risk weapons materials and assist former weapons workers in developing peaceful applications and self-sustaining job opportunities for their expertise and technologies. In the mid-1990s, Lab scientists began efforts to devise improved biodetection capabilities, leading to miniaturized and autonomous instruments that can detect biothreat agents in a few minutes instead of the days to weeks previously required for DNA analysis. Today, Livermore researchers address a spectrum of threats – radiological/nuclear, chemical, biological, explosives, and cyber. They combine physical and life sciences, engineering, computations, and analysis to develop technologies that solve real-world problems. Activities are grouped into five programs:

Nonproliferation. Preventing the spread of materials, technology and expertise related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and detecting WMD proliferation activities worldwide.
Domestic security: Anticipating, innovating and delivering technological solutions to prevent and mitigate devastating high-leverage attacks on U.S. soil.
Defense: Developing and demonstrating new concepts and capabilities to help the Department of Defense prevent and deter harm to the nation, its citizens and its military forces.
Energy and environmental security: Furnishing scientific understanding and technological expertise to devise energy and environmental solutions at global, regional and local scales.
Condition: Good.

Keywords: Samuel Bodman, Seismic Simulation, National Ignition Facility, Proliferation, David McCallen, High Performance Computing, Official Visits, Computational Predictions, Earthquakes, Ground Motion

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