CONTACTS

National Security Office
Paul White
(505) 667-6120
Weapons Program
Glenn Mara
Weapons Engineering
Bret Knapp
Weapons Physics
Charles McMillan

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Bob Putnam, Pit Production Manufacturing Program Office

Confidence

The nation's security depends upon its nuclear arsenal. The arsenal must be reliable, perform as expected, and be secure. Los Alamos National Laboratory provides the science and engineering that ensures, to the highest degree possible, the arsenal is safe and ready.

Beep-Beep! Roadrunner!

LANL is the nation's choice for the Roadrunner supercomputer
—the world's most powerful computer—able to operate at sustained petaflop speeds. Roadrunner provides the computing brawn needed to tackle complex systems like climate change, flu pandemics, and nuclear reactions.

Manuel Vigil, of High Performance Computing, Roadrunner project manager

Wolfgang Runde, manager of the National Isotope Program

Science That Saves Lives

LANL gives the nation, and the world, the scientific capabilities it needs to protect against present and future threats. LANL's broad research and development projects are vital to, for example, energy security, counterterrorism, disease prevention, and environmental stewardship.

Nobody Does It Better

LANL is the world's leader in plutonium science and manufacturing. For over 6 decades, LANL has been the center of science on radioisotopes. The new CMRR facility ensures LANL will continue to be the place to safely advance the frontiers of research on the radioactive elements.

John Sarrao led the discovery of the first plutonium superconductor.

LANL: National Security