> > > > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > > Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy Seminar Series > > “Simulations, Testing, and Reliability in the Second Nuclear Age” > > Hugh Gusterson > Professor, Cultural Studies and Anthropology > George Mason University > > MIT Dept. of Nuclear Science & Engineering > Thursday April 10, 2014 > Room 24-213 > > 12:30 – 2:00 PM > Refreshments 12:30 PM > > > Based on interviews with cabinet officers, Congressional aides and senior > officials from the nuclear weapons complex, this talk reconstructs the > decision taken in the 1990s to end nuclear weapons testing. Under pressure > in the international and domestic political arenas after the end of the cold > war, the Clinton Administration overruled protests from the nuclear weapons > labs that continued testing was needed to assure weapons reliability and > safety. However, the nuclear weapons complex was given a budget increase to > replace testing with a set of simulation technologies, including a new > generation of lasers and supercomputers. But the question remains: can we be > sure the nuclear stockpile is safe and reliable? How do we know? > > >
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