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Home > National Security> Stockpile Stewardship > Test Readiness

Test Readiness

The President directed the U.S. Department of Energy to maintain an underground test readiness program in the event that resumption of nuclear weapons testing becomes necessary. Overall readiness is supported by experimental programs conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

In particular, test readiness at the Nevada Test Site is critically dependent on laboratory-based experiments that exercise high-bandwidth recording and advanced diagnostic development that are not required for non-nuclear experiments.

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Date Last Modified: January 16, 2009