1990

 
1991
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• Funding for environmental cleanup programs reaches nearly 20 percent of LANL budget.
• Concept of accelerator transmutation of waste (ATW) developed.
• Los Alamos scientists visit the closed Russian city of Arzamas-16 for the first time.

 
• “Tiger Teams,” commissioned by DOE, visit Los Alamos to review safety considerations.
• Los Alamos chosen as a site for a high-performance computing research center.
• LIDAR environmental monitoring technology used in Mexico City.

• Operation Julin: US conducts its last underground nuclear test, “Divider.”
• Russian laboratory directors Vladimir Belugin and Vladimir Nechai visit Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
• U.S.weapons laboratory directors visit Russia.
• A 1024-processor Thinking Machines CM-5, the most powerful computer at the time, installed at the ACL.

 

 

• ALEXIS satellite launched with BLACKBEARD radio-frequency detectors.
• LANL celebrates its 50th anniversary.
• President Clinton visits Los Alamos.
• Bradbury Science Museum opens in downtown Los Alamos.
• Pajarito Site (now TA-18) is designated a national nuclear landmark.
• DOE hosts a complex-wide conference on science-based stockpile stewardship.
• Groundbreaking for the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility.
• Massively parallel Cray T3D installed at the ACL.
• Ten Russian nuclear materials experts become the first from their country to visit the plutonium facility at TA-55.
• LAMPF renamed Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE).
• Laboratory scientists complete map of chromosome 16.
• ASCI Program begins at Los Alamos.
• FORTE satellite launched.
• “Rebound” is first subcritical test at NTS.
• John C. Browne becomes Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Norris Bradbury dies.
• ARIES plutonium recovery line dedicated.
• First W88 plutonium pit produced at TA-55.
• Proton radiography demonstrated. • Blue Mountain supercomputer from Silicon Graphics, Inc. operates at 1.6 teraOPS.
• President Clinton visits Los Alamos.
• First hydrodynamic test at DARHT.
First shipment of transuranic waste leaves for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
• Complete 3-teraOPS Blue Mountain supercomputer operational.
• Groundbreaking for Strategic Computing Complex to house 30-teraOPS computer system.

• Senate ratifies the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty.
• Iraq invades Kuwait.
• Germany reunites.
• South Africa begins repealing its apartheid laws.
• Manuel Noriega captured by the U.S. on drug charges.
• Hubble space telescope is launched.
• Tim Berners-Lee uses a hypertext system for information access for physicists.

Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin

• Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia; USSR disolves.
• Croatia and Slovenia declare independence.
• Persian Gulf War (42 days).
• President Bush calls for a more limited version of SDI that uses ground-based interceptors.
• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) signed by Bush and Gorbachev.
• Sumio Iijima observes nanoscopic threads, or 'nanotubes.'

• President Bush announces U.S. nuclear testing moratorium.
• The Hatfield Amendment establishes a nine-month moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.
• The first U.N. Conference on Environment and Development is held in Rio de Janeiro.
• CERN publicly releases hypertext for physicists, naming it the World Wide Web.

President Clinton
President Clinton

• William Jefferson Clinton becomes President of the United States.
• President Clinton extends nuclear testing moratorium.
START II Treaty signed by Bush and Yeltsin.
• European Union takes effect under the terms of the Maestricht Treaty.
• Czechoslovakia breaks apart peacefully into Czech Republic and Slovakia.
• U.N. peacekeeping force fails in Somalia.
• Terrorists attack in garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Congress approves NAFTA.
• Internet connects 30 million people in 137 countries by computers.
• Marc Andreeson and others developed a graphical user interface for the World Wide Web, called 'Mosaic X.'

• President Clinton upholds the nuclear testing moratorium indefinitely.
• Russian army invades Chechnya.
• Rwandan refugees flee to Zaire.
• Nelson Mandela elected president of South Africa.
• A quantum computer algorithm for factoring large numbers, implicitly rendering RSA cryptosystems vulnerable, is discovered by Peter Shor.

• Dayton Peace Accord ends fighting in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia.
• France resumes nuclear testing at Muroroa Atoll.
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty made permanent.
• Oklahoma City bombing kills 168.
• DOE establishes the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI).
• Frederick Reines wins Nobel Prize for Physics for neutrino research done at Los Alamos.
• AIDs epidemic surges with Africa reporting 70% of world cases.
• The first complete nucleotide sequence of a free-living organism, Haemophilus influenzae is published.

• President Clinton signs Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
• Taliban gain control of Kabul.
• The Seattle Project deciphers the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or baker's yeast; the first organism with a nucleus to have its genome deciphered.

• Hong Kong reverts to China.
• The President and Congress agree to a five-year budget balancing plan.
• Asian economic crisis begins.
• Scottish scientist Ian Wilmut announces cloning of a sheep, Dolly.
• Fermilab discovers the first direct evidence of the existence of the 'tau neutrino.'

• India and Pakistan conduct nuclear tests.
• Construction of International Space Station begins.
• Serbia invades Kosovo.
• President Clinton impeached in U.S. House of Representatives.
• James Thomson isolates human embryonic stem cells.

• Europe's new common currency, the Euro, is introduced.
• NATO conducts bombing campaign against Serbia in Kosovo region.
• Senate votes down the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
• Groundbreaking for the six-laboratory Spallation Neutron Source project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• The Human Genome Project announces the sequencing of part of human chromosome 22.